Egypt wants Italy's new ambassador
to Cairo to "effectively arrive", foreign ministry spokesman
Ahmed Abou Zeid said Tuesday.
The envoy, Giampaolo Cantini, was named in May when Italy
had just decided to recall its ambassador over a lack of
Egyptian cooperation in the case of Giulio Regeni, an Italian
doctoral student tortured to death in Cairo.
That decision stands.
Earlier Tuesday the foreign ministry spokesman, Zeid, said
there are "good contacts" between Italian and Egyptian
investigators probing Regeni's and that there's a "common will
to find those responsible and bring them to justice".
Zeid said Italian and Egyptian investigators are looking
into various sectors in the ongoing probe, while Foreign
Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday there is "no laxness" on the
part of Egypt regarding the case.
In an interview published on Monday in the local press,
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi thanked Italian Prime
Minister Matteo Renzi for his "positive statements" on the
cooperation between Rome and Cairo in the investigations on the
case, and expressed solidarity with the Regeni family.
Regeni's parents said they don't understand "what positive
statements al-Sisi is referring to, nor what solidarity he is
alluding to".
Regeni, 28, went missing on the night of January 25, the
heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled
former strongman Hosni Mubarak, and his burned, mutilated, and
partially unclothed body turned up in a ditch on the road to
Alexandria on February 3.
Egypt has repeatedly denied its security forces were behind
the torture and murder of Regeni, a Cambridge doctoral student
researching Egyptian trade unions.
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