Regeni, the Julius family in the Senate. Manconi: Egypt lies and obscenities – The Messenger

Not a tear, but so much pain. A “necessary pain” to deal with “all together.” Paola Regeni has the proud look, a yellow scarf of the same color with the banner calling for truth and justice, the strength of a mother who will fight to the last for that one answer that matters: because Giulio was reduced in that way . Next to her husband Claudio, in the Senate hall dedicated to the dead of Nasiriyah, Paola faces dozens of journalists with the knowledge of those who know that the researcher’s death is a huge fact that has not only changed the lives of his family.

Ed in fact: “the death of Julius is not an isolated case. It is not measles, chickenpox is not. The part of Egypt friend told us that they tortured and killed like an Egyptian. Maybe they will not be liked his ideas. And maybe – marks Paola – it was from the time that an Italian fascism did not die after being subjected to torture. But Julius was not at war, it was not in the mountains as partisans, who have all my respect. He was there to do research. Yet tortured him.

<'p> For a moment, before facing the media, Julius parents thought to an extreme gesture to stir things up, spread the photos of Giulio morgue of Wisdom. As he already Patrizia Aldrovandi, as it continues to do Ilaria Cucchi. Then at the end we thought, although it is possible that later can change your mind, especially if Egypt will continue to arrive false leads. “We believe that the words of the mother are stronger,” said their lawyer Alessandra Ballerini. So here they are, those words. “The last photo we have Julius is on 15 January, the day of his birthday – says Paola -, one in which he has a green sweater and red shirt. You can not see, but in front of him is a plate of fish and around friends, because Giulio loved to have fun. His was a smiling face, with an open look. It is happy image. ” Then there another image. One that “with me and Claudio pain we try to superimpose one in which he was happy,” the morgue.

“Egypt has given us a completely different face. Instead of the solar face and opened there is a small tiny little face, I do not say what you have done. On that face I saw all the evil in the world and I wondered why all the evil in the world has bestowed upon him. ” No one speaks, Paola continues in silence. “At the morgue, the only thing that I found in that his happy face is the nose. I only recognized him by the nose. ” Giulio’s mother does not cry. we can not. “I heard that cry romantic songs, funerals and also for the children’s drawings, so far I cried very little. For Giulio I can not cry, I have a total block and maybe I can unblock only when I can figure out what happened to Julius. “

They ask what the thing that hurts the most. “Think about when he will have tried in every way to make people understand who he was, speaking in Arabic, English, Italian, Spanish, German, maybe even in the Cairo dialect, and nothing happened. Then I get to see her eyes, those of his happy eyes, they say ‘but what’s going on, can not happen to mè. And yet, when I imagine, in the end, he realizes that the door will not open any more, because he had all the cognitive, linguistic keys, and historical to understand what was happening. ” In these two months, says Paola yet, there were “moments of anger,” but above all “of great regret”: there are not more Giulio. Which it is something that “changed the life to us, but also to his sister. And in Fiumicello. And many others. Something so – concludes looking the looks of the whole room – life changing at all, you know? “.