Patrick Zaki can have Italian citizenship. The Senate has given the green light to the motion, not binding, to grant citizenship to the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna in prison in Egypt from 7 February 2020. The agenda was approved with 208 yes, no contrary and 33 abstentions.
Among the yes also that of the senator for life, Liliana Segre, who arrived from Milan for the vote: «There is something in the story of Patrick Zaki that she takes in a particular way, and it is remembering when an innocent is in prison.
I have tried this too and I will always be present, at least spiritually when it comes to freedom ».
The motion was presented by Democratic party. In addition to citizenship in the text there is a request to the government to solicit the Egyptian authorities for the student’s release. It is also requested to follow the hearings and to monitor the conditions of detention. The request is also to work at the European level for the protection of human rights. The senators of the Brothers of Italy abstained who, for the liberation, aim at the path of diplomacy.
It is not a binding agenda. The government’s position is cautious. There Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Marina Sereni he said: “The Italian government has been following the Zaki case with the utmost attention since the first hours of his arrest and fully shares the concern of Parliament, also in light of a further extension of his pre-trial detention … The attribution of Italian citizenship to Patrick Zaki, would be configured as a symbolic measure with no practical effects to protect the person concerned … Italy would encounter considerable difficulties in providing consular protection to the young person, since he is also an Egyptian citizen, since the original citizenship would prevail ». To be assessed according to the government is the risk of negative effects on the goal of Patrick’s release. “In this sense, the granting of citizenship could even prove to be counterproductive.”
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