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The images show Giulio Regeni in the last days before his death. We see him in a moment that may have been fateful for him. In the video, the Italian researcher speaks in Arabic with Mohammed Abdallah, the head of Cairo’s street vendors union, who were at the center of his doctoral thesis for Cambridge University. The video was filmed by Abdallah himself on January 6, 2016 according to Italian investigators, that is, 19 days before Regeni’s disappearance.
The video filmed with a police camera.
The union boss allegedly did it with a micro-camera hidden in a button, a tool provided by the Egyptian police; then he would hand it over to the latter. The Italian investigators have been in possession of the video since December 7, 2016 (in total it lasts 1 hour and 55 minutes, although the actual interview is 45 minutes) and they have given the green light to the dissemination of a summary of the shot in January 2017. To broadcast it was the first Egyptian television channel, in the program Akhbar Misr. The cuts are obvious: for example, at one point Abdallah mentions a third aspect of the question, but we never hear him speak of the first or the second.
The request for money and the complaint
These images confirm a story we knew, told by the investigator’s friends and, between denials and lies, by the trade unionist himself, but which is enriched with important details. Giulio Regeni wanted to apply for a £ 10,000 grant from a British organization to help street vendors. He had shared this information with the union leader, who wanted to pocket the money and use it for personal purposes. Abdallah asks Regeni for money because my wife has cancer. The researcher is inflexible in the face of these requests and responds: I cannot give them to him because they are not mine, I am an academic, I cannot use them for private purposes. We knew that after Regeni refused to give him money, Abdallah had reported him to the National Security Intelligence Service, saying he suspected him of being a spy.
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The date of the complaint confirmed by the Egyptian authorities was January 7, 2016, but from this recording it appears that the complaint was prior to that date and that, based on it, the police would have agreed with Abdallah, providing him with the tools He gropes to frame Giulio. Egyptian authorities had said in the past that they only monitored Regeni for three days, after the January 7 complaint. Four years after the investigator’s disappearance, the truth about his death under torture remains to be clarified.
December 12, 2020 | 09:30
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