The judges, after a council chamber that lasted over five hours, canceled the act by which the judge ordered the indictment of the defendants last May in the trial for the murder of Giulio Regeni. They then accepted the petition presented by the lawyers of the four Egyptian intelligence officials accused of the death of the Friulian researcher, arguing that there is no evidence to confirm the notification of the process. In the opinion of the Court of Assizes of Rome “the decree that ordered the judgment had been notified to the accused, however, not present at thepreliminary hearing by delivering a copy of the act to ai defenders of office appointed, on the assumption that they had withdrawn voluntarily to the knowledge of the proceedings “. We then start again from the preliminary hearing. The judge must use all tools, including one new letters rogatory with Egypt, to make the defendants’ knowledge of the proceedings against them effective and not just presumed. There is no doubt whatsoever of “Lack of loyal cooperation” by the Egyptian authorities, but at the same time “he cannot deny us” that there remains the “insufficiency” of evidence that he has defendants are aware of the process and they wanted to subtract from the same, explained the president in the classroom.
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