Patrick George Zaki, Egyptian activist and researcher, has been in preventive detention since February 8, 2020. David SASSOLI, EP President, meets with members of the association supporting Patrick Zaki in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Strasbourg

round table

meeting

EU - Egypt (T)

respect for human rights in the world (T)

EU - Italy (T)

SASSOLI, David Maria (S&D, IT, S&D, IT)

BENIFEI, Brando (S&D, IT)

MAJORINO, Pierfrancesco (S&D, IT)

president's agenda

David SASSOLI, EP President meets with the association supporting Patrick Zaki: meeting and roundtable

Title:  David SASSOLI, EP President meets with the association supporting Patrick Zaki: meeting and roundtable

Arrival of the members of the association supporting Patrick Zaki with Brando BENIFEI (S&amp;D,IT) (3 shots)

Presentation of the 270.000 signatures requesting th Italian nationality for Patrick ZAKI

SOUNDBITE (Italian), David SASSOLI, EP President, Well, this is a very important gesture, among other things, it also shows how much attention it gained, not only from Italy where he lived and he studied, but also from other European countries. So his story is really adopted by public opinions across Europe.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Member of the association supporting Patrick Zaki, We deliver together with this box, which is a treasure very precious for us, a red thread a that speaks of social militancy that aims to give body to the European Charter of Fundamental Rights of Man. It speaks of mobilization from below for the future, it is a red thread that binds freedom of thought to hope, and it binds us right now to Patrick Zaki, who is a symbol of the best Egyptian youth, but not only.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Member of the association supporting Patrick Zaki, Patrick Zacki today is a symbol of all prisoners of conscience but not only, he is a symbol today of the dreams of all the young people who move to study abroad in those cultural interchanges also hoped for by Erasmus Mundus.

SOUNDBITE (Italian), David SASSOLI, EP President, The value of Italian citizenship also translates into European citizenship and therefore this gesture, the delivering of this petition to the European Parliament ha very important value. Not only because we all want to be close to this guy who we feel like one of our boys but at the same time because it gives Europe a strong charge of defence of fundamental values.

Final exchange between David SASSOLI, EP President and members of the association supporting Patrick Zaki