What Eva Kaili’s partner Francesco Giorgi testified according to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir
Eva Kaili’s Italian partner pleaded guilty in the Qatargate case Francesco Giorgi, as revealed by the Belgian newspaper Le Soir citing court documents.
According to the documents, Giorgi told police and prosecutor Michel Cleze that he had been part of an organization that had contacts with both Morocco and Qatar, with the aim of interfering in European affairs.
He is said to have also confirmed that the former Italian MEP (Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats – S&D) Pier Antoni Panzeri (photo bottom right), he is indeed the head of the circuit.
It is recalled that Pantzeri is one of the persons arrested on Friday morning. A similar fate had both his wife and his daughter, for whom a European arrest warrant was issued and executed in the province of Bergamo.
Since 2014, Panzeri has served on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). In the period 2017-2019, he was the chairman of the committee in question. As president, he said in 2019 in Doha that Qatar had become a “benchmark for the protection of human rights and continuously demonstrated that it was on the right track.”
In 2019, Panzeri co-founded the non-profit organization Fight Impunity in Brussels (official name: Association pour la Lutte contre l’Impunite et pout la Justice Transitionnelle), of which he is the president. The purpose of the NGO was to promote “the fight against impunity for serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity”.
Eva Kaili she will remain for another week in custody in Belgian prisons of Haren since he did not attend the closed-door hearing before the Belgian authorities. Cause; The women’s prison police union strike which prevented her from being transferred from the prisons to the pre-trial council. Thus, as she herself was not present, her case was not discussed and Mrs. Kaili was postponed until December 22. Instead, her three co-accused, including her Italian partner, Francesco Giorgi, they attended.
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