Judges in the Rome trial in absentia
of four Egyptian intelligence officers in the 2016 torture and
murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni said in rejecting their
pleas for a dismissal that they had been guilty of "brutal and
gratuitous violence" against the 28-year-old Cambridge
University doctoral researcher.
"Brutal and gratuitous physical violence and infliction of
personal bodily suffering that cannot but have produced, due to
their severity, severe pain and torment in the strict sense of
the word, in a crescendo that originated the death event, even
if we want to overlook the fact of psychological suffering",
said the judges of the First Assize Court of Rome in the order
in which they rejected the exceptions put forward by the defence
lawyers of the four officers accused of Regeni's kidnapping,
torture and murder in January-February 2016.
"The modalities," they added, "chosen for the kidnapping and
murder cannot but be inspired by those essential purposes of
public torture of a punitive and/or intimidating nature."
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