(ANSAmed) - Brussels, March 6 - Foreign Minister Angelino
Alfano said he would "raise the question" of tortured and slain
Italian researcher Giulio Regeni with his Egyptian counterpart
Shoukry during a meeting of European ministers on Monday.
"I will tell him that as far as we are concerned the case can
only be closed before the word 'truth'. There are no words that
are subordinate to truth," Alfano said.
Regeni, 28, went missing in the Egyptian capital on January
25, 2016, on the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the
uprising that ousted former strongman and president Hosni
Mubarak.
His severely tortured, mutilated body was found on February 3
in a ditch on the city's outskirts.
Egypt has denied speculation its security forces, who are
frequently accused of brutally repressing opposition, were
involved in the death of the Cambridge doctoral student.
Egyptian and Italian prosecutors have been working on the
case but Rome has yet to send a new ambassador to Cairo in
protest at the lack of progress. (ANSAmed)
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