The phone records of some of the 13
Egyptian citizens whose calls Rome prosecutors probing the Cairo
torture and murder of student Giulio Regeni want to screen were
sent to Rome by Egyptian Prosecutor-General Ahmed Nabil Sadeq on
Wednesday.
A new summit on the Regeni case will take place "in the
next few days" in the Egyptian capital, after a request from
Sadeq, judicial sources said.
The Italian delegation is set to leave at the weekend, the
sources said.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student
researching Egyptian trade unions, disappeared on January 25,
the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that
toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
His beaten, burned, slashed, and mutilated body turned up
in a ditch on the city's outskirts on February 3.
Rome prosecutors want to examine the phone calls made in
the vicinity of the areas where Regeni disappeared and where his
body was found.
Egypt has repeatedly dismissed speculation that its
security forces may have been involved in Regeni's death.
Italy has complained of a lack of cooperation from Cairo in
getting to the bottom of the case and recently recalled its
ambassador to Egypt for consultations after the investigation
into Regeni's death stalled, with Egypt proffering versions of
his death that stirred disbelief, included a car crash, a gay
lovers' quarrel, and a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
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