All the slaps that Italy takes from Egypt and Libya
Libya case and not only for Italy. The comment by Giuseppe Gagliano
The Egyptian prosecutor said the killers of Italian student Giulio Regeni remain unknown and on Monday they said they would temporarily close the investigation into Regeni's murder, as prosecutors in Italy prepare to proceed to bring at least five to trial in Rome. Egyptian intelligence officials.
The reaction of Regeni's parents and of their lawyer Alessandra Ballerini, who issued a very harsh joint statement in which they urged the Italian government to "recognize this outrage" by recalling the Italian ambassador to Cairo, is completely understandable.
Specifically, the joint statement by Regeni's parents underlines that there have been countless injustices on the part of the Egyptian authorities. In fact, not only was Giulio Regeni kidnapped, tortured and killed but they have tainted his reputation by discrediting him, lying and deceiving him. It is simply unacceptable that the Egyptian prosecutors have expressed "reservations" with respect to the conclusions reached by the Italian magistrates.
However, the Regeni issue presents another mystery: Matteo Renzi, who was Italy's prime minister at the time of the murder, said last week that his government had only been informed of the kidnapping on January 31, 2016, pointing out that if the government knew before, they could have acted differently.
However, the Italian Foreign Ministry rejected the statements of the former prime minister, claiming that the Italian government institutions and the secret services had been informed from the first hours after Giulio's disappearance on 25 January 2016. But on the other hand, Renzi's credibility is more that it is legitimate to have some reasonable doubts… especially after the extensive and documented investigation by Report on Alitalia and Piaggio Aerospace.
Now let's face the story of the 18 fishermen of Mazara del Vallo (8 of which of Italian nationality) prisoners since September of the militias of the Libyan National Army (LNA) of General Khalifa Haftar.
Beyond the statements of the vice-president of the government of Tripoli, Ahmed Maitig, according to whom we are working diligently for the liberation of the Italian fishermen also thanks to the talks started with the Benghazi officials, the proposed exchange with the four Libyan traffickers condemned by our country for human trafficking, represents an obvious humiliation for our country.
First of all, because the detention has already lasted for three months – a very long time – and it is inadmissible for a nation that formally boasts of having international credibility but which in fact lacks it completely, especially on the Libyan chessboard as we have repeatedly emphasized. on these pages.
Secondly, because this exchange was requested by Haftar who is not an exponent of Islamic jihad but an institutional exponent recognized both by Italy and internationally. In short, a slap in the face both to our country and to the international community.
Third, if such an agreement were to materialize, it could set a dangerous precedent since it would implicitly authorize the kidnapping of other people for the purpose of ransom.
Finally, it is legitimate to ask what usefulness the Italian Navy has together with the special forces – considered among the best at international level – if they are not used precisely in these circumstances or for the purpose of deterrence in the case of the Navy to be implemented off Benghazi or to put in be a blitz by the special forces.
These two cases that we have briefly presented have an evident common denominator: on the one hand they demonstrate the political incapacity, the absence of political decision-making but above all they demonstrate the total absence of credibility of our country at the international level. We also continue to deal with Maradona.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutti-i-ceffoni-che-prende-litalia-dallegitto-e-dalla-libia/ on Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:14:00 +0000.