AGI – There was also Uhsam Helmi, the Egyptian 007, at joint team meetings with Italian investigators who investigated the death of Giulio Regeniwhich took place in Cairo in 2016. Colonel Helmi is one of the defendants, accused with three other National Security colleagues of having the university researcher found was kidnapped, tortured and killed corpse the February 3, 2016 on the road that leads to Alexandria. Tariq Sabir, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahime, Magdi Ibrahim Abedal Sharif are also accused together with him.
The leaders of the central operational service of the State Police who followed the investigations were heard before the judges of the assize court of the capital: the responsible director, Vincenzo Nicolì and the manager Alessandro Gallo. The Colonel’s photos Uhsam Helmi, in sunglasses, blue jacket and white shirt, were shown in the courtroom of Rome. They were taken when the Egyptian officer now on trial participated on 10 February 2016 in the inspection obtained by Italian investigators in the place where Regeni’s body was found.
“The one with the sunglasses is Colonel Helmi, he was there quite often,” he confirmed Colonel of the ROS of the Carabinieri Loreto Biscardi, who then explained: “We were never provided with any footage, not even from the subway cameras. The indications that came from the team of local detectives was that of a plot against Egypt or even a terrorist action to be attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood . All to complicate relations with Italy.”
Biscardi also recalled that “we had come from a positive experience of exchanges with the Egyptian police, we had managed to interrupt migrant trafficking a few years earlier and the initial expectations were to clarify the matter. At the beginning – he continued – we it was an apparent collaboration, they allowed us to witness the taking of testimonies but we were looking for objective evidence. The Egyptian authorities were immediately informed that what had emerged from the autopsy carried out in Italy was not compatible with their investigative hypotheses such as the accident. road”.
