Egyptian and Italian investigators
met Thursday to go over the case of 28-year-old Italian student
Giulio Regeni, who was abducted, tortured and murdered in Cairo
in the week between January 25 and February 3.
Italy is represented by Rome Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone
and others while Egypt sent Cairo Adjunct Chief Prosecutor
Mostafa Soliman, International Cooperation Prosecutor Mohamed
Hamdi el-Sayed, National Security General Adel Gaffar and two
high-ranking police officials named as Alal Abdel Megid and
Mostafa Meabed.
The delegation of two Egyptian magistrates and four
security officials reportedly came bearing a 2,000-page case
report, including interviews with 200 witnesses with alleged
connections to the victim.
Premier Matteo Renzi said yesterday that Italy owes
Regeni's family the truth.
"We think reaching the real truth is a duty for our country
and that this is also in the interests of the Egyptian
government," Renzi said.
Regeni's mother said in March that when her son's body was
finally returned, she only recognized him by the tip of his
nose.
"At the mortuary I only recognized Giulio by the tip of his
nose," Paola Deffendi said at a March 29 press conference at the
Senate in Rome.
"What they did to him is unspeakable".
His severely burned, beaten, stabbed and mutilated body
turned up in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3.
Egyptian authorities have offered up a number of versions as to
what happened to the Italian student, none of which the Italian
government has found convincing.
Regeni was a Cambridge University doctoral student and
a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
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