Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi said Wednesday that "we Egyptians created a problem with
the murder" of Italian student Giulio Regeni.
Sisi, as reported by tweets on Daily News Egypt, reaffirmed
his condolences to Regeni's family in his remarks in parliament
to politicians, trade unions and NGOs.
Italy has recalled its ambassador and is weighing fresh
moves to pressure Egypt to cooperate on probing the torture and
murder of the 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student, who was
researching trade unions in Cairo.
A two-day judicial summit in Rome ended in failure Friday.
Regeni disappeared on January 25, the heavily policed fifth
anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled former strongman
Hosni Mubarak, and his mutilated body turned up in a ditch on
the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Egyptian authorities have offered up a series of scenarios
for how the atrocity occurred, ranging from a road accident to a
gay lovers' spat to a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
Italy has not found any of these versions credible.
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