Italy: the four Egyptians accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni will be tried in absentia

2024-03-18T16:06:26.344Z

Highlights: Italy: the four Egyptians accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni will be tried in absentia. The four Egyptian secret service agents – General Tareq Saber, Colonels Aser Kamal and Hicham Helmi as well as Commander Magdi Cherif – are accused of Regeni's murder. Regeni, 28, was found in a ditch near Cairo on February 3, 2016, nine days after his kidnapping. The Egyptian authorities have always refused to provide the contact details of Egyptian agents to Italian justice.

The four Egyptian secret service agents – General Tareq Saber, Colonels Aser Kamal and Hicham Helmi as well as Commander Magdi Cherif – accused of the kidnapping, torture and murder…

Italy: the four Egyptians accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni will be tried in absentia

The four Egyptian secret service agents – General Tareq Saber, Colonels Aser Kamal and Hicham Helmi as well as Commander Magdi Cherif – accused of the kidnapping, torture and murder of young Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in 2016, may be tried , even in their absence, decided the Rome Assize Court this Monday, March 18.

Amnesty International activists during a demonstration in Turin, in 2020, for the fourth anniversary of the disappearance of Italian student Giulio Regeni.

AFP - MARCO BERTORELLO

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent in Rome,

Anne Le Nir

The body of Giulio Regeni, 28, was found in a ditch near Cairo on February 3, 2016, nine days after his kidnapping.

The Egyptian authorities have always refused to provide the contact details of Egyptian agents to Italian

justice

But “

we finally have the certainty that the trial can take place

,” exclaimed, to the applause of a small support committee in front of the court, Me Alessandra Ballerini, the lawyer for Giulio Regeni’s family.

The Rome Assize Court has in fact rejected the legal objections raised, during the hearing on February 20, by the defense of the four accused, members of the Egyptian security services, on the grounds that a judgment in absentia is compatible with Italian legislation in cases of torture.

But the road to doing justice for the young doctoral student promises to be arduous.

The prosecutor, Sergio Colaiccco, explained that it will take fruitful work by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs "

to obtain the collaboration of the Egyptian authorities in order to hear the 27 witnesses who live in

Egypt

The next hearing has been set for April 9.

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Italy: the four Egyptians accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni will be tried in absentia

Italy: the four Egyptians accused of the murder of Giulio Regeni will be tried in absentia

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