The four 007s accused of the kidnapping and the murder of Giulio Regeni they will go to trial. This was decided at the end of the preliminary hearing by the gup Pierluigi Balestrieri, who accepted the request of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office. Also present at the hearing were Paola Deffendi and Claudio Regeni, the parents of the 28-year-old researcher of Friulian origin, who was kidnapped in Cairo on 25 January 2016 and then found dead on 3 February along the road to Alexandria in Egypt.
The first hearing is set for October 14th.
The agents of the National Security who will go to trial are General Sabir Tariq, Colonels Usham Helmi, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif for the crime of multiple kidnapping. Adbelal is also accused of complicity in aggravated personal injury and complicity in aggravated murder.
«Paola and Claudio often say that all human rights have been violated on Giulio», explained Alessandra Ballerini, lawyer of the Regeni family, «but from today we have the well-founded hope that at least the right to truth will not be violated. It took us 64 months, but it is a good goal and a good starting point ».
The prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco, who requested the indictment of the agents of the National Security, he explained that “a new challenge is now opening up that the trial will entail, namely that of obtaining that all the witnesses, especially the Egyptian ones, come and report back to the assize court what they have already said in the course of the investigations”. It will not be so simple, also in light of the fact that the Cairo prosecutor’s office in December made public a provision in which it says it excludes “that the suspicions against the suspects are well founded” and claims that “the Italian prosecutor has concealed the evidence that could be useful to the Egyptian investigations ». But the deputy prosecutor is optimistic: “During the investigation the impossible became possible, and also in the trial phase we will do our best to make the impossible happen again».
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