On the statements after the Regeni ruling «I am amazed by the controversy. I limited myself to photographing yesterday’s sentence (“There are three people guilty, but it is not Egypt that is condemned as such”). And precisely because it is a limited sentence, because it does not tell us who Regeni’s killers are, we want full light to be shed on this. We have never given up and we don’t cover anything. Diplomatic action is worth more than outcry, because we have never given up on insisting with the Egyptian authorities, in every meeting, on what is fundamental for us, discovering the truth, discovering who Regeni’s killers are.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this on the sidelines of an event.
«With the same silent diplomatic activity we managed to bring Patrick Zaki back to Italy – continued Tajani – and with the same commitment we are working to bring Nancy Guerra and her daughter home to Italy. We don’t cover anything up, we just want to find out the truth. We are the government, and the State is a civil party to the process, so we will respect the law no matter what. But I repeat, we must move forward to discover the truth, because yesterday’s sentence is only a first step, it does not tell us who Regeni’s killers were.”
Schlein: “Tajiani’s words are serious, the government must enforce the Regeni sentence”
«Tajani has missed another opportunity to remain silent and avoid embarrassment for the country. He demonstrates that he understood nothing of yesterday’s sentence, which condemns three members of the Egyptian regime’s security apparatus for the kidnapping and torture of Giulio Regeni. No one can any longer deny the responsibility of the Al Sisi regime. Tajani’s words are very serious because they come just when justice has taken an important step forward after ten years of tenacious battle for the truth by the Regeni family and a commendable effort by the Prosecutor’s Office. Tajani should spare himself the tone of official acquittal, also because now it is the government’s task to enforce and execute the sentence issued, with a strong and determined political and diplomatic initiative, to demand that the Egyptian government bring those responsible to justice and pay Italy the compensation that the sentence has established”. Thus the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.