Premier Mario Draghi and Justice
Minister Marta Cartabia had a video-conference meeting on Monday
with Paola and Claudio Regeni, the parents of Giulio Regeni, the
Italian student abducted, tortured and murdered in Egypt in
2016, the premier's office said in a statement.
It said "possible initiatives" were discussed on how to follow
up on a petition to the government to intervene in the case from
a Rome preliminary hearings judge (GUP)
Earlier this month the GUP called on the government intervene to
enable the case to move forward against four Egyptian National
Security Agency (NSA) officers over Regeni's homicide.
In October the Court of Assizes in Rome had ruled the trial in
absentia of the four Egyptian security could not proceed until
there was proof the defendants had formally received notice of
being on trial, sending the case back to the GUP.
The GUP then transmitted the case documents to the government to
verify if anything had come from warrants sent to the Egyptian
authorities in April 2019 and to see if there was any room for
dialogue with Cairo on this matter.
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