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ROME The evening in which the unionist-informant Mohamed Abdallah denounced Giulio Regeni before National Security, unleashing the death trap into which the Italian investigator fell, in the same structure was also the then Egyptian Minister of the Interior, Magdi Abdel Ghaffar. The stories of Abdallah, with the relative agreements to spy on and report Giulio’s every subsequent move, had lasted for hours, until 4 a.m., and when it was time to return home, the unionist was detained, because Ghaffar was leaving the building: «In my mind I thought the matter was so serious that even the Minister of the Interior had come in person. We were stuck until the minister came out and left.
The memory of the “spy” is contained in the report of the interrogation of May 10, 2016, three months after the discovery of Regeni’s body, of the former Cairo attorney general, Nabil Sadek. Ghaffar’s presence when the Italian investigator comes into the crosshairs of the Egyptian security forces could be a coincidence, as the police and the ministry offices are in the same structure. But this may not be the case, as the unionist thought. The unusual timing suggests additional suspicion about the lies, reluctance and misdirection of the Egyptian authorities about Giulio’s tragic end. Including Ghaffar.
On February 8, 2016, the former minister solemnly declared: “We have repeatedly confirmed that Mr. Regeni has not been imprisoned by any Egyptian authority. We reject all allegations and allusions about a security implication. We did not know Regeni ». Previously, from January 27 to February 2, while the kidnapping was taking place, the minister rejected the Italian ambassador Maurizio Massari; and when he finally met him, the diplomat testified, “He was evasive, despite my insistence, he repeatedly said he did not know or have information.”
Today we know that Ghaffar lied, or at least was induced to lie by his devices, because from November-December 2015 Giulio was “paid attention” by National Security. The controls on him were activated the day after the complaint, as reported by Abdallah himself.
The representative of the street vendors had spoken of Giulio with “Doctor Foda”, director of the Egyptian Center for Workers’ Rights, who had addressed the colonel of the Ns. Uhsam Helmi, one of the four suspects that the Rome prosecutor wants to try. “Hosam asked me what our problems were as street vendors,” he told the magistrate, “he asked Sharif (Major Sharif, also charged with murder, ed) to make a list of them to solve them, and he told me to follow Regeni’s question with him … The next day Sharif contacted me, he wanted to know if I should meet with Giulio, I said yes and that I wanted to go together. to him in Masr Al Gadida (a market, ed). When Sharif asked me why I said I wanted to know who I was dealing with and he replied that I was doing well. ‘
Giulio da Abdallah was led by the coordinator of a Center for Economic and Social Rights, Hoda Kamel Hussein, identified by Rabab Ai-Mahdi, the tutor indicated by Cambridge Professor Maha Abdelrahamn, despite Regeni’s perplexity over the fact that Al-Madi was “an activist who could have overexposed him.”
The chain of relationships that led Giulio to “room number 13” of the National Security where he was seen chained and tortured, has been painstakingly reconstructed by the investigation of the Rome Prosecutor’s Office; The central link remains Abdallah, who in the first two interviews with National Security, in February and April 2016, said that he had met with Regeni only once, without adding anything else. Only on May 10, in front of the prosecutor Sadeq and after the recall of the Italian ambassador to Rome, did he tell at least part of the truth; “Referring to having been induced by National Security, and in particular by Major Sharif, to make false statements,” accuse the Roman magistrates. They believe that Abdallah is reliable because of the facts that have been found with objective data, such as the telephone records from which the numerous contacts between him and Sharif emerged.
December 13, 2020 (change December 13, 2020 | 10:35)
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