“Torture with beatings and burning” –

On the body of Giulio Regeni “almost all the tortures carried out in Egypt and described were found, including punches, kicks, use of clubs, burns”. This was said in the courtroom by Professor Vittorio Fineschi, specialist in forensic medicine and consultant to the Rome prosecutor’s office, during a new hearing in the trial on the murder, kidnapping and torture of the Italian researcher. Fineschi, in 2016, performed the autopsy on Regeni’s body: «The medical-legal investigations carried out in Egypt were below the minimum standard – he stated in response to questions from the deputy prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco – what they describe is not compatible with what that we found. The medical-legal investigations in Egypt were incomplete and not very thorough.” Egypt – the specialist further explained in the chamber – «over the years has published two scientific works on torture, one of which relating to 140 cases with the list of the methods of torture carried out on the living, such as arrested people and then tortured also with dragging of the body, clubs, handcuffing of wrists and ankles, burning. In another publication – Fineschi remarked – that is, a retrospective study relating to 367 cases of torture which occurred in the years 2009 and 2010 in Egypt, many methods of torture are reported which were then also found on the body of Giulio Regeni, for example the beatings on the feet until all the bones are broken.”

Dr. Marcello Chiarotti, toxicologist and consultant to the Rome prosecutor’s office, informed the courtroom that Giulio Regeni’s death can be «estimated between 10pm on 31 January and 10pm on 2 February 2016. Regeni did not had made no use of any narcotic substance or drugs or poisonous substances, the toxicological tests all gave negative results”. Four Egyptian 007s are accused in the case.