The famous Italian novelist, Erri Di Luca said : ““Al-Sisi wants to guarantee impunity for Giulio Regeni’s murderers. Madness for an Italian to go to Egypt after what happened.”
De Luca was attending the first hearing of the trial on the death of Giulio Regeni, as An Italian judge suspended on Thursday, October 14, 2021 the trial of four Egyptian security officials over the disappearance and murder of anItalian student who was killed in Egypt, because of concerns the men might not know about they had been charged.
De Luca “The sequence of threats, sabotage and silence carried out by the Egyptian authorities in recent years against those responsible for Regeni’s murder is chilling, and any Italian citizen going to Egypt after what happened is a path of madness. Every Italian should avoid going to Egypt in self-defense.”
Although the court suspend the trial “for fear that the defendants who are being tried in absentia would not know that it would be held, which would invalidate the proceedings, this did not discourage the Regeni family’s determination to continue their efforts to bring the murderers before justice Family lawyer said
“The verdict is a setback [for our efforts] but we demand that the criminals who killed Regeni not go unpunished.”Alessandra Ballerini said
On Saturday, October 16, the Secretary-General of the Italian Workers’ Union, Maurizio Landini, demanded in a mass demonstration in the heart of the Italian capital against the rise of neo-fascism in Italy “For precisely that, we want the truth for Regeni, we want the truth to be revealed and applied. justice.”
The trial decision means the case will go back to a lower court which will have to decide whether to make a new effort to locate and hand over the top four officials.