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Rome Prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco said
Monday the fact that the four Egyptian security officials
accused of Giulio Regeni's murder are unlikely to be at their
trial in Italy will not mean the proceedings are merely a show.
"The absence of the defendants will not reduce the trial to a
simulacrum," Colaiocco told a Rome court as he requested the
officials be indicted.
"Being able to publicly reconstruct the events and individual
responsibilities in a criminal trial is to a constitutional,
supranational obligation.
"It is an obligation that the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office
has proudly tried to fulfil with total conviction since the
beginning of the investigation."
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