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)."
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