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Egypt denies being behind Regeni's murder

Egypt denies being behind Regeni's murder

The Times slams Egyptian 'police terror'

Rome, 10 February 2016, 20:21

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Regeni went missing January 25 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Regeni went missing January 25 -     ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Regeni went missing January 25 - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Egypt on Wednesday reiterated a denial that it had anything to do with the brutal murder in Cairo of Italian student Giulio Regeni.
    Also Wednesday, as it emerged Regeni was killed in a central flat before being dumped outside the city, British daily The Times denounced the case as alleged evidence of "police terror" in Egypt. Egyptian Ambassador to Italy Amr Helmy in an interview Wednesday on state broadcaster RAI Radio said Regeni was never under Egyptian police custody, and that current accusations "without proof" against Egyptian security forces could damage relations between the two countries. "We're not so naive as to kill a young Italian and throw away his body the day of Minister Guidi's visit to Cairo," Helmy said.
    Industry Minister Federica Guidi was visiting Cairo on February 3 when Regeni's body was found in a ditch in the city's outskirts.
    "I hope the truth comes out as soon as possible. We don't have anything to hide," Helmy said.
    Regeni was a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo, conducting research for his thesis and reporting on Egyptian trade unions for leftwing Rome-based paper il manifesto. He went missing on January 25, the anniversary of the uprising that led to Hosni Mubarak's ouster in 2011.
    His body was found with signs of torture including two clipped ears, a torn-out fingernail and toenail and cuts all over including on the soles of the feet.
    Regeni was killed in an apartment in the centre of Cairo before his body was dumped on the desert road from Cairo to Alexandria, independent Egyptian daily Al Masry Al Youm said on its website Wednesday.
    It did not cite sources but only "investigations" by the Giza police.
    The investigative team "went over the last movements of the victim before his disappearance on the evening of January 25" and also "saw his last calls before he turned off his telephone," the website report said.
    Nothing points to a robbery linked to Regeni's murder, Egyptian investigators told Rome prosecutors Wednesday. The investigators are now poring through footage from surveillance cameras in the El Dokki neighbourhood where the Cambridge doctoral student lived.
    In an op-ed piece, The Times on Wednesday blasted the "shameful murder" of Regeni.
    "Yesterday 4,600 academics wrote to (Egyptian) President (Abdel Fattah) al-Sisi demanding answers. "Cairo denies all responsibility, but Mr al-Sisi should be under no illusions. "On his watch Egypt has fulfilled the gloomiest predictions of a return to rule by police terror....Thousands of civilians are detained without charge on the mere suspicion of dissent and the pursuit of an extremist minority is used to rationalise old-fashioned military dictatorship," the British paper wrote.
    Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday reaffirmed the government's commitment to establishing the truth about Regeni's murder.
    Speaking to the Lower House, he called it a "horrible affair".
    Gentiloni said "we immediately reacted with firmness with the friendly Egyptian government, to get the body back and take part in the investigation.
    "I want to assure you that this commitment will be firm and continuous in the next few days and months, hopefully getting to the truth of this tragic affair."

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