AGI – “Almost all the tortures carried out in Egypt and described were found on the body of Giulio Regeni, including punches, kicks, use of clubs, burns”. This was reported in the courtroom by Professor Vittorio Fineschi, specialist in forensic medicine and consultant to the Rome prosecutor’s office, during a new hearing in the trial on the murder, kidnapping and torture of the Italian researcher, for which four Egyptian 007s are accused. Fineschi performed the autopsy on the body of the 28-year-old researcher of Friulian origin, kidnapped in Cairo on 25 January 2016 and found dead the following February 3 along the road that connects the Egyptian capital to Alexandria: “The medical-legal investigations carried out in Egypt were below the minimum standard – he stated today in the courtroom, answering questions from the deputy prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco – what they describe is not compatible with what we found. The medical-legal investigations in Egypt were incomplete and not very thorough”. Egypt – the specialist further explained at the hearing – “over the years has published two scientific works on torture, one of which relating to 140 cases with the list of torture methods carried out on the living, such as arrested people and then also tortured with dragging of the body, clubs, handcuffing of the wrists and ankles, burning. Another publication – said Fineschi – is a retrospective study relating to 367 cases of torture which occurred in the years 2009 and 2010 in Egypt. methods of torture which were then also found on the body of Giulio Regeni, for example beatings on the feet until all the bones were broken”.
Regeni’s death can be “estimated between 10pm on 31 January and 10pm on 2 February 2016”. The toxicologist Marcello Chiarotti reported this in court. The investigations of the technical consultant of the prosecutor’s office were carried out on 6 February 2016, when a sample of “vitreous humor” was taken in order to evaluate the potassium level in the post-mortem phase. The boy’s death dates back to “124 hours of sampling”, an average value between a minimum range of 96 hours and a maximum of 150 hours. Furthermore, Giulio had not made any use of any narcotic substance or drugs or poisonous substances: “the toxicological tests all gave negative results”, explained Chiarotti.
The Regeni family’s lawyer, today will be a painful hearing
“Today will be a particularly hard and painful hearing, because all the evil in the world that has befallen Giulio will be represented and recounted in detail. We have asked that part of it take place behind closed doors, and so it will be ‘Because we don’t want those who loved Giulio, his friends and family, to remember him as he will be seen. We ask all of you that no one divulges those images, because it would be an outrage to all those who care about him they loved Giulio and his dignity.” This was said by the lawyer Alessandra Ballerini, lawyer for Giulio Regeni’s family, at the sit-in which took place in Piazzale Clodio a few minutes before the hearing of the trial on the researcher’s murder. In the trial, which is being held in front of the Assize Court of Rome, four Egyptian 007s are accused. Also present in the square in front of the Capitoline judicial city were some students from the Tito Lucrezio Caro high school in Rome. The young people read some passages from the book “Giulio fa cose”, written by Giulio Regeni’s parents together with the lawyer Ballerini: “we thank them immensely – said Paola Deffendi and Claudio Regeni – among other things they chose parts of the book that were not random , they did it with their heart. Today, in the courtroom, a medical examiner and a toxicologist will be heard.
