While the mediations and negotiations of the Italian government to get Patrik Zaki out of Egyptian prisons, the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the death of Giulio Regeni was held today.
“We had no data when the body was found, only a body on the highway. Only the autopsy described a picture of death resulting from torture that lasted for weeks and incompatible with the hypothesis of the gang of robbers ». This was made clear by the former prosecutor of Rome, Giuseppe Pignatone, current president of the Vatican court during the hearing.
A story, that of Regeni, studded with lies and misdirections that have never made it possible to clarify what really happened to the young researcher killed in Egypt. “The first block of objective data that helped to dismantle and deny the so-called hypothesis of the van came with the autopsy,” explained Pignatone.
“Another important thing – he added – was the role of the family and the world of organizations and associations that have supported and have been alongside the family because there is no doubt that it has exercised both on the Italian government and at the level of world public opinion “. A pressure that at certain moments proved decisive.
Some things did not work perfectly and among these there is the collaboration between the Egyptian and Italian authorities at the judicial level: «It was a fluctuating trend. I think it is fair to acknowledge that there has been an effective collaboration, but not everything that could be given or what has been asked has been given »confirmed Pignatone. It appears in the documents that the letters rogatory were processed only in part or with great delay and “before having the telephone records and the traffic of the cells in some areas there were dozens of never and phone calls”.