There have been “clear” indicators of torture
on the physique of Giulio Regeni, the Italian scholar tortured to
dying in Egypt in January-February 2016, former Italian
ambassador to Cairo Maurizio Massari advised a Rome trial in
absentia of 4 Egyptian intelligence officers Tuesday.
“I personally went to the morgue the place Giuli’0s physique was being
held,” Massari advised the trial of Nationwide Safety Common Tariq
Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim
and Uhsam Helmi, and Main Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif.
“There have been clear indicators of torture, of blows acquired over all
the physique with bruises and indicators of fractures and cuts.”
Cambridge College doctoral researcher into unbiased
Egyptian commerce unions Regeni, 28, from a small city close to Udine
in northeastern Italy, was tortured so badly that his mom
Paola Deffendi mentioned she might solely recognise him “from the tip
of his nostril”.
Deffendi mentioned “all of the evil on the planet” was visited on her
son’s physique.
His physique, in keeping with an Italian post-mortem, confirmed indicators of
excessive torture: contusions and abrasions throughout from a extreme
beating; intensive bruising from kicks, punches, and assault
with a stick; greater than two dozen bone fractures, amongst them
seven damaged ribs, all fingers and toes, in addition to legs, arms,
and shoulder blades; a number of stab wounds on the physique together with
the soles of the ft, presumably from an ice decide or awl-like
instrument; quite a few cuts over the whole physique made with a pointy
instrument suspected to be a razor; intensive cigarette burns; a
bigger burn mark between the shoulder blades made with a tough
and sizzling object; a mind haemorrhage; and a damaged cervical
vertebra, which finally prompted dying.
The 4 officers are on trial although it has proved
unattainable, as a consequence of Egyptian lack of cooperation, to tell them
of the proceedings.
Regeni, 28, is believed to have been killed because of the
politically delicate nature of his analysis for the British
college, into unbiased road vendor commerce unions.
One of many union chiefs reportedly fingered him as spy.
He was tortured to dying between January 25 and February 3 2016.
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