Premier Giorgia Meloni should ask
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about the whereabouts of
the four Egyptian security officers who are on trial in absentia
in Rome for torturing to death Italian doctoral research student
Giulio Regeni in Cairo in January-February 2016 so they can be
formally notified of the legal proceedings against them, said
centre-left opposition Democratic Party (Pd) leader Elly Schlein
on Wednesday, referring to both the premier's visit to Egypt on
Sunday to sign a 7.4 billion EU-Egypt deal to stop migrants in
exchange for development and the lack of cooperation by the
Egyptian authorities in the case.
"When she goes to Egypt she should ask al Sisi for the addresses
of the four people who murdered an Italian researcher, a
European researcher: this is what she should ask al Sisi,"
Schlein told the Lower House during the debate on Meloni's
communications ahead of the European Council on Thursday and
Friday.
National Security General Tariq Sabir and his subordinates,
Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major
Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, have been put on trial in absentia
even though they have not been formally notified of the
proceedings against them.
On Tuesday Meloni rejected suggestions that the EU-Cairo deal
EU-might hurt the pursuit of truth over Regeni's murder.
The 28-year-old Friuli-born Cambridge University researcher into
independent Egyptian trade unions was tortured to death between
January 25 and February 3 2016.
Al-Sisi, with whom Meloni and others negotiated the
migrants-for-cash deal, has repeatedly issued vain promises to
cooperate in the case.
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