Italy cannot expect Egypt to hand
over those who tortured and killed Giulio Regeni as long as its
own torturers head up the Italian police, appeals court
assistant prosecutor Enrico Zucca said Tuesday, referring to
brutality at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
"Our torturers are at the top of the police, how can we ask
Egypt to hand over their torturers?" said Zucca.
Zucca was among the judges who convicted Italian police of
brutality in a night-time raid on an anti-globalist sleeping
quarters in the Diaz school, an incident described by Amnesty
International as the worst postwar suspension of democracy in
Europe.
Zucca went on: "September 11 2001 and the G8 marked a rupture
in safeguarding international rights.
"The effort we ask of a dictatorial country is an effort we
have shown we ourselves cannot make for less dramatic affairs".
Regeni, 28, was tortured and murdered in Cairo early in 2016
in a case in which Egyptian security officials are suspected.
Egypt has always denied the involvement of its security
apparatus, which is frequently accused of brutally repressing
dissent.
Regeni was being followed by police because of his research
for Cambridge University into Egyptian street-seller unions, a
politically sensitive issue.
His main contact, the head of the Egyptian street-hawkers'
union, had told police he was a spy.
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