Rome, 19 Feb (LaPresse) – The president of the First Assize Court of Rome has requested that the acts be sent to the prosecutor's office on the testimony of Matteo Renzi's former diplomatic adviser at Palazzo Chigi, Armando Varricchio heard last 11 February during the hearing in the trial on the kidnapping, torture and murder of the 26-year-old Friulian researcher who died in Cairo in 2016, Giulio Regeni. In fact, in today's hearing, Varricchio sent a note in which he explained that contrary to what he had reported in court, after consulting diaries with appointments for the days when Giulio disappeared, he was not in Rome but in Japan at that time. ‘We were all stunned,’ said Alessandra Ballerini, the family's civil plaintiff lawyer. We all listened in the courtroom to the declarations of former councillor Varricchio, who, however embarrassed, had testified in which he acknowledged a number of things and had reported frequent contacts with the Farnesina, and today it turns out that he only dealt with Giulio's disappearance on the 31st evening,' concluded Ballerini.