The Constitutioanl Court should step
in and try to break the impasse in the Giulio Regeni trial
caused by Egypt's refusal to hand over the legal abodes of the
four intelligence officers suspected of torturing the Italian
student to death in 2016, Rome prosecutors said Monday.
The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office said it was asking the Rome
preliminary hearings judge (GUP) in charge of the case to refer
it to the Constitutional Court in order to overcome the "stasis"
in the trial against the four spies accused of Regeni's death in
custody in January-February 2016.
The move was urged by prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi and deputy
prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco in court Monday.
On the request, which concerns the issue of the
constitutionality of an article in the Code of Criminal
Procedure on the subject of the "absence" of the accused, the
judge reserved his decision, adjourning the proceedings to 31
May.
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