Italy on Friday recalled its ambassador to Egypt after a two-day summit between investigators into the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni failed to shed light on the atrocity that occurred in Cairo earlier this year.
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni recalled Italy's ambassador to Cairo, Maurizio Massari to assess the "most opportune" measures to get at the truth over Regeni, who was abducted, tortured and murdered in Cairo early this year.
Regeni, a Cambridge doctoral researcher working on Egyptian trade unions, went missing in Cairo on January 25, the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak. His burned, beaten, stabbed, and mutilated body turned up on the city's outskirts on February 3. Egypt initially said he was a road-accident victim, then suggested a gay lovers' spat, said his wounds were due to an Egyptian autopsy, and most recently said he was the victim of a kidnapping gang that was subsequently wiped out by the police leaving them unable to testify. Italian judicial sources said that the 2,000-page dossier the Egyptian delegation has brought on the case is "still incomplete" and lacks fundamental elements that Italy has been asking for for over a month.
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