Rome prosecutors have been
investigating since October the disappearance in Rome of
Egyptian national Adel Meawwad Heikal, 49, to which President
Abdle Fattah el-Sisi referred in an interview on Italian student
Giulio Regeni's murder in Cairo in an interview with Rome daily
La Repubblica Wednesday, judicial sources said. So far no
evidence has been found that a crime was committed, they said.
The owner of a carwash in the Aurelia district that closed last
summer, Heikal, with a wife and children resident in Egypt,
disappeared on the night of October 4-5 after cancelling the
rental of the room he was living in and taking 1,000 euros out
of an ATM. Before disappearing he reportedly spent the evening
with a compatriot. This man, and Heikal's son, were unable to
help police with their inquiries. No useful information was
obtained, either, from phone records or a search of his room.
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