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The Public Ministry of Rome – which this morning notified, with the rules established for unavailable suspects, the closure of the investigations by the kidnapping, torture and murder of Giulio Regeni – collected the statements of two eyewitnesses who saw the young Italian investigator in two in two separate barracks of the Egyptian security forces.
One the same night of the kidnapping, the January 25, 2016; the other a few days later, in chains and with obvious signs of torture on his body. The witnesses were located thanks to the defensive investigations of Regeni’s family, with the lawyer Alessandra Ballerini.
The prosecutor Michele Prestipino and the alternate Sergio Colaiocco called them, to protect their identity and security, with the cover names. Delta me Epsilon.
Here is the summary of the two stories, told by the magistrates during the hearing before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the kidnapping and death of Regeni.
Testimony of witness Delta
On the basis of the investigation concluding deed, Regeni was carried out against her will and outside of any institutional activity, first at the Dokki police station and then in a building in Lazougly, where she was deprived of personal liberty for nine days.
Witness Delta reports:
On January 25, while I was at the Dokki police station, it could have been 8 or 9 at night, a person arrived … He was between 27 and 28 years old, had a short beard, was wearing a sweater, probably in blue and gray. , if I remember correctly with a shirt underneath … He spoke in Italian and asked for a lawyer … It sure was Giulio Regeni. In the photos I saw on the internet, he had the longest beard.
While I was at Dokki station, I saw the boy arrive whom I only later recognized as Giulio Regeni who, while walking down the hall, asked to speak to a lawyer or to the Consulate. At that moment I saw the Italian boy well, who arrived with four people in civilian clothes. At the same time I saw one of these four guys with a phone in hand.
Later, Delta claims that Regeni was put in a Shine model car, state blindfolded and taken to a place called Lazoughly. One of the policemen who was there was called Sherif … another was called Mohamed, but I don’t know if his real name.
Also, while Regeni was asking for a lawyer, another detainee, who tried to help him, was elbowed in the face by a policeman who said the Italian boy also spoke Arabic.
This is how the investigator died, according to the Rome prosecutor’s office: reconstruction
Witness Epsilon Testimony
At the Lazoughly barracks was the witness Epsilon who, when located and questioned on July 29, said he had worked for 15 years. in the structure where Regeni died, that is, in the National Security headquarters that is within the Ministry of the Interior and that took the name of the street: it is called Lazoughly structure, Lazoughly direction.
It is, says Epsilon, of a structure in a villa It dates back to the time of Abd Al Naser, which was later exploited by investigative bodies. There are four floors and the first floor of interest, room number 13 … when any foreigner suspected of conspiring against national security is captured, they are brought there.
It was the 28th or 29th (January, ed), I saw Regeni in that office 13 and there were also two officers and other agents, I only knew the two officers. Entering the office I noticed some iron chains with which they united people … he was half naked on top, he was sporting signs of torture and babbling words in his language, he was delirious … He was a thin boy, very thin …
He was lying on the ground, with his face back.… I saw him handcuffed with handcuffs that forced him to the ground … I realized signs of redness behind the back, but it’s been four years, I don’t remember the details. I didn’t recognize him right away, but five or six days later, when I saw the photos in the newspapers, I matched up and realized it was him.
The words of the witness Gamma
Before these two witnesses, the prosecutor Colaiocco had heard, in April 2019, the Gamma heads, who had already been heard and who reported witnessing a meeting between Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif – one of the suspects in the kidnapping, now also accused of the torture and murder of Giulio – and a Kenyan colleague, to whom he allegedly confessed, during a meeting in Nairobi, to having beaten the Italian investigator, suspecting that he was an agitator.
Here is Gamma’s story: In 2017, during the month of August, I was in a restaurant and there was a person who could be Egyptian. A person who I assume was Kenyan, from the Kenyan security services, entered the restaurant.
The two men, the Egyptian and the Kenyan, began to argue about the situations that have arisen in Nairobi, in terms of public order, and about the protest movements in Kenya …
When he finished speaking Kenyan, the Arabic began to speak an Italian student, a PhD student, who was trying to incite a small group of people to start a revolution. The Kenyan, in response to when he said Arabic, said that he also thought Europeans would be bad people.
The Arab continued his story by stating that this Italian could have been a member of the CIA, also citing the Mossad. He went on to say that they had found out that he belonged to the Antipod Foundation, which was driving a revolution in Egypt.
At one point, according to the Egyptian, they’d had enough, they’d even started wiretapping. One day they had heard from wiretaps that he had to go to a party in the Tahrir area, and before reaching a restaurant in Tahrir Square they arrested him.
The Egyptian used the first person plural when relating these matters. They, the Egyptians, were very angry and the Arab, using the first person singular, claimed to have hit him. At this point the Kenyan asked his Egyptian interlocutor the name of the subject he was talking about, and the Egyptian responded by saying: Jules Regeni.
Before the greetings, they exchanged business cards, the Kenyan pronounced “Ibrahim Magdi Sharif” and the Egyptian confirmed that it was his name.
Based on these testimonials, and many other items collected over the course of now almost five years of research characterized by a complicated and intermittent dialogue with Egyptian magistrates, the Rome Prosecutor’s Office closed the investigation and is preparing for ask for the trial for the older Sharif (also charged with murder), General Tariq Sabir, Colonel Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Colonel Uhsam Helmi (the last three accused only of kidnapping). For a fifth suspect, National Security Directorate agent Mahmoud Najem, the presentation was requested since the elements collected were not enough, at present, to support the accusation in court.
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