With the initiative of the Traguardi civic movement, it has also found a home in Verona a yellow bench in memory of Giulio Regeni.
It is placed in Achille Forti park in via Anti, in San Michele Extraand was inaugurated this morning in the presence of Silvia Savoia, contact person for Verona of Amnesty International, the organization which fights against injustice and in defense of human rights and which together with the Regeni family promotes this symbolic action at a national level within the “Truth for Giulio Regeni” awareness campaign.

So also Verona as in the rest of the Italian Municipalities that have joined the initiative, this bench will become a symbol of the ever-present attention towards respect for human rights, in memory of the young researcher kidnapped in 2016 in Egypt, in Cairo, and found lifeless after having undergone terrible torture.

«Demanding truth for Giulio Regeni is a moral and civic duty in the name of the rights, freedom and equality of every citizen and for all those who do not find justice or peace in the world», says Mirko Filippini, vice president of the Seventh District and promoter of the naming of a public bench after Giulio Regeni. His proposal, which became a motion later voted in favor by the Parlamentino, is an administrative act that underlines the commitment of the entire Traguardi civic movement towards the protection of rights, solidarity and shared memory.

“Still today no clarity has been made, for this reason it is necessary to keep alive the collective attention on the Regeni affair”, continues Filippini. «The desire to place the bench in this public green space, which is a very important meeting place for the San Michele district and beyond, was born from the intention of capturing the attention of passers-by and at the same time making people reflect on fundamental issues are, in fact, the protection of rights. Also with a commemorative function.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by the president of the Seventh Circumscription, Carlo Pozzerle. «With this initiative, the Seventh District, and more generally the city of Verona, reinforce their voice within the political and opinion movement that calls for light to be shed and for the truth to be told on the case of Giulio Regeni, who has become the emblem of a whose courage and commitment are often unjustly underestimated. His example and all of his work speaks to us of the importance of protecting individual and social rights, which by their nature are for everyone or are not for anyone. Getting to the truth is therefore an act that we also owe to ourselves, as well as of course to the family, who have been fighting for years with equal courage and determination to ensure that true justice is done on this heartbreaking affair”.