We were right, No to trial repugnant say Regeni family

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - The family of Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured to death in Cairo in early 2016, said after the Constitutional Court on Wednesday OK'd the trial of four Egyptian security officers that they had been right to push for proceedings to go forward and that the judicial stalemate caused by Egyptian non cooperation had been "repugnant".
    "We were right: it was repugnant to the common sense of justice that the trial for the kidnapping, torture and murder of Giulio could not be held because of the obstructionism of the al-Sisi dictatorship on whose behalf the four defendants committed these terrible crimes," stated the Regeni family, through their lawyer Alessandra Ballerini.
    "In fact, as preliminary hearings judge Roberto Ranazzi wrote in his order, 'there is no more unjust trial than the one that cannot be established by the will of a government authority. "We had to resist against this dictatorial will for seven and a half years while always trusting in the constitutional principles of our democracy.
    "We thank all the people who have supported and will support our path towards truth and justice: the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office and in particular prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco, the media coverage and support, and all the 'yellow people' (camapigners for Justice for Giulio)." (ANSA).