Rome, 23 June (LaPresse) – “Giulio Regeni was not killed by members of the underworld, but by members of the Egyptian security services.” This was stated in the opening address delivered in the bunker courtroom at Rebibbia by Rome’s deputy public prosecutor, Sergio Colaiocco, during the trial of four Egyptian security service agents accused of the abduction, torture and murder of the researcher from Friuli. At the start of his speech, the magistrate quoted the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. “At the outset of this closing speech, it is only right to recall the words of the Republic’s highest institution, the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, who has repeatedly emphasised over the last ten years that truth and justice must not be subject to compromise,” explained Colaiocco. For the prosecutor, the proceedings represent a fundamental step in upholding the principles of law. “Through this trial, the Italian judiciary has affirmed that torture and murder have no place in this country,” he added. In recounting Regeni’s case, the prosecutor described the moment when the young researcher allegedly entered “a grey area, where the law ceases to exist and is replaced solely by brute force”. From that moment on, he explained, Giulio was no longer regarded as a person but as “a kidnapped individual, someone to be broken”, transformed into a tool upon which to exercise “absolute power”. He then added: “And that is why the trial that comes to a conclusion today is a trial against silence”, reiterating the need to achieve a full reconstruction of who was responsible for the Italian researcher’s death.
Regeni case: prosecutor in the bunker courtroom: “There is no place for torture and murder in Italy”
Rome, 23 June (LaPresse) – “Giulio Regeni was not killed by members of the underworld, but by members of the Egyptian security services.” This was stated in the opening address delivered in the bunker courtroom at Rebibbia by Rome’s deputy public prosecutor, Sergio Colaiocco, during the trial of four Egyptian security service agents accused of the abduction, torture and murder of the researcher from Friuli. At the start of his speech, the magistrate quoted the words of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. “At the outset of this closing speech, it is only right to recall the words of the Republic’s highest institution, the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, who has repeatedly emphasised over the last ten years that truth and justice must not be subject to compromise,” explained Colaiocco. For the prosecutor, the proceedings represent a fundamental step in upholding the principles of law. “Through this trial, the Italian judiciary has affirmed that torture and murder have no place in this country,” he added. In recounting Regeni’s case, the prosecutor described the moment when the young researcher allegedly entered “a grey area, where the law ceases to exist and is replaced solely by brute force”. From that moment on, he explained, Giulio was no longer regarded as a person but as “a kidnapped individual, someone to be broken”, transformed into a tool upon which to exercise “absolute power”. He then added: “And that is why the trial that comes to a conclusion today is a trial against silence”, reiterating the need to achieve a full reconstruction of who was responsible for the Italian researcher’s death.
