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ROME. “The Attorney General announced that at the moment there is no reason to initiate criminal proceedings for the murder, kidnapping and torture of the victim Giulio Regeni, since the perpetrator is unknown”: the prosecutor reiterates this in an Egyptian General statement. The Italian judiciary on December 10 had closed the investigation against 4 members of the Egyptian services, a step that precedes the opening of a trial. But the note released by Cairo again underlines that the prosecutor “has instructed the parties in charge of the investigation to continue the investigation to identify” those responsible.
“The Egyptian attorney general Hamada Al Sawi” excludes what has been attributed to four National Security agents in this case, “it is also stated in the text published on the Facebook page of the Cairo institution that has avoided facilitating the election. of the suspects’ home at the request of the Rome Prosecutor. “Given the death of the accused, there is no reason to initiate criminal proceedings for the theft of the victim’s property, which left wound marks on his body,” the statement added .
The reference is to the five members of the “criminal gang” specialized in robberies of “foreigners”, “including another Italian in addition to the victim,” the note recalls. The group was defeated in a shootout with security forces in Cairo on March 24, 2016. Egyptian authorities claimed that Regeni’s documents were found in her lair, including her passport, but the version did not convince Italian investigators. . Already in the joint communiqué of November 30 with the Public Ministry of Rome, the Egyptian general had advanced “reservations about the evidentiary framework” which, according to him, consists “of insufficient evidence to support the accusation in court.”
By arguing that a trial in Italy would be demotivated, the Egyptian prosecutor in his statement confirms the thesis that “parties hostile to Egypt and Italy want to exploit” the case of Giulio Regeni “to damage relations” between the two countries. This would be demonstrated by the place where the body was found and by the choice of both the day of the abduction and the day of the discovery of the body, which took place during an Italian economic mission in Cairo, the text argues.
According to the prosecutor, “unknown persons may have taken advantage of” Regeni’s movements “to commit the crime, choosing the 25/1/2016 (anniversary of the 2011 revolution, ed) because they knew that Egyptian security was busy ensuring the safety of the institutions of the State “. The person in charge “should have kidnapped and tortured him so that the crime was attributed to Egyptian security, he threw his body next to an important structure belonging to the police and coinciding with the visit to Egypt of an Italian economic delegation,” the text argues. . with implicit reference to the mission carried out by the then Minister of Economic Development Federica Guidi ».
“All this as if the criminal had the purpose of informing the whole world of his death and attracting attention,” he adds. “This shows the attorney general that the parties hostile to Egypt and Italy want to exploit this incident to damage relations between the two countries at a time when these relations had recently had positive developments,” the note said. “These parties also have the support of media known for their instigation of conflicts,” the statement continues, adding that “the attorney general’s office,” based on the “circumstances of this case and in light of this analysis, believes that there is another a side that has not yet been revealed by the investigations, as well as the perpetrator of the crime.
