Egyptian Prosecutor-General
Nabil Ahmed Sadek and a delegation of investigators will travel
to Rome "in the next few hours" to meet Rome Chief Prosecutor
Giuseppe Pignatone on the case of Giulio Regeni, the Italian
research student who was tortured and murdered in Cairo,
Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar said.
"Sadek will present new information found in the inquiry to
get to the truth about the researcher's death," it said.
Last month Italian officials said Egyptian and Italian
prosecutors investigating Regeni's death would meet in Rome on
September 8 and 9.
The meeting is being held on request of the Rome
prosecutor's office, which is conducting the Italian side of the
investigation.
Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and Egyptian Prosecutor
General Sadek will attend what will be the third such
meeting since the beaten, stabbed, burned, mutilated and
partially unclothed body of Regeni, 28, was found dumped in a
ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3, a week after his
disappearance on the night of January 25.
An autopsy subsequently revealed he had been tortured for
days, and that someone ultimately killed him by snapping his
neck.
Egypt has offered up a number of explanations for the young
man's condition and his death - including a gay lovers' quarrel,
a car crash, and a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong - none of
which Italy has found convincing.
The first meeting between prosecutors and investigators
from both countries took place March 14 in the Egyptian capital,
and the second took place April 7 in Rome.
Italy broke off judicial cooperation after Egypt failed to
provide meaningful information and called its ambassador to
Cairo back to Rome.
Since then a new ambassador has been named, Giampaolo
Cantini, but is still being kept in Rome.
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