ROME — The
family of Italian student Giulio Regeni appealed Friday for help tracking down
four Egyptian security officers suspected of playing a part in his brutal 2016
death.
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“We know who they
are, what their faces look like, and we know how much harm they are capable of
doing. Will you help us look for them?” the Regeni family’s lawyer said in a
Facebook post.
A trial of the four
in absentia in Rome was thrown out by judges in October because prosecutors
were unable to prove they had managed to inform the defendants of the judicial
process against them.
The officers stand
accused of kidnapping, conspiracy to murder and grievous bodily harm in the
case, which sparked outrage in Italy and has strained diplomatic relations with
Egypt.
“We need their
residential addresses so we can try them in Italy. Help us to find them. Let’s
not give them the chance to... continue to do all the evil in the world with
impunity,” lawyer Alessandra Ballerini wrote.
“Anyone who has
news about them and their home addresses please contact me. I will protect the
anonymity of any witnesses,” she said, posting photographs of three of the four
men.
The 28-year-old
Regeni was doing research for a doctorate at Cambridge University when he was
abducted in Cairo in January 2016.
His body, bearing
extensive signs of torture, was eventually found dumped on the outskirts of
Cairo, naked from the waist down.
The Italian
government joined the proceedings with a civil suit for damages, in a symbolic
show of support.
But the trial
juddered to a halt before it could begin when the court said it was not
possible to be certain that the four suspects, members of Egypt’s National
Security Agency (NSA), were aware of the proceedings against them.
Egypt has
repeatedly refused to provide their contact details.
The four are named
in court documents as General Tariq Sabir, Colonels Athar Kamel, and Uhsam
Helmi and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, who is accused of carrying out
the killing.
Investigators
believe Regeni was abducted and killed after being mistaken for a foreign spy.
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