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Two held in Regeni murder

Two held in Regeni murder

Italian investigators in Cairo in bid to reconstruct crime

Rome, 05 February 2016, 20:32

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Two people were arrested in Cairo Friday in the murder of Italian university researcher and part-time journalist Giulio Regeni.
    A Cairo security source told ANSA the murder was not linked "to political or terrorist" elements and was purely "a criminal act".
    Regeni's body is set to return from Egypt to Italy Saturday for a fresh autopsy on his tortured corpse.
    Seven Italian investigators have flown to Cairo to take part in a joint probe aimed at reconstructing a case that has appalled Italy and sent shock waves abroad.
    Regeni's remains will reach Rome's Fiumicino Airport on Saturday at 13:00 local time, sources said Friday.
    His body will be taken to the coroner's department at La Sapienza University for an autopsy ordered by Rome prosecutors as part of their murder investigation into the Cambridge doctoral student's death in Cairo.
    Regeni, 28, was studying at the American University in Cairo and freelancing for Rome daily Il Manifesto on issues such as the trade union movement. He wrote several articles under a pseudonym about labour issues in Egypt for the left-wing Italian newspaper. After his death, the paper ran his last piece under his name, detailing difficulties facing independent labor unions, including the Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services.
    He went missing January 25, the closely controlled fifth anniversary of the uprising against former strongman Hosni Mubarak, and he was found dead in a ditch with signs of torture on the evening of February 3.
    Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told RAI public broadcaster Friday he is confident Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won't back out of working with Italy to find Regeni's killers.
    "We have one single objective: the truth," Alfano said. "I am convinced Al-Sisi won't shirk...and that our good relations with Egypt will be a lubricant aiding in the search for truth." Alfano added that "all procedures will be activated so that severe justice will be meted out to those responsible".
    Also Friday, Italian intelligence sources denied press reports of links between the intelligence services and Regeni. "All and any link by Giulio Regeni with Italian intelligence is to be categorically denied," they said. The sources said "indescribable falsehoods and exploitation" of the affair were to be "refuted with determination". The sources expressed "amazement and consternation" at the reports.
    Egyptian Ambassador to Italy Amr Helmy said Friday it was "important not to give certain 'enemies' the opportunity to exploit (Regeni's) death" and thus "undermine...the stable and excellent relations between our countries". He reaffirmed that investigations would be "carried out with the maximum transparency and collaboration, as the death of the student represents an event that has struck Italian institutions and public opinion". The European Union is at Italy's side in trying to get to the bottom of the murder, High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said Friday. "The EU is at Italy's side to try to make sure that the utmost collaboration is guaranteed by Egyptian authorities and the utmost clarity is achieved on the responsibility and dynamics" of the murder, she said.
    A team of seven State, Carabinieri and Interpol police officers left for Cairo Friday to closely follow the investigation into the death of Regeni, who was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo with signs of torture on his body.
    Egyptian authorities turned his body over to Umberto I Italian Hospital in the Egyptian capital late yesterday.
    It had emerged earlier in the day that Regeni freelanced with Italian leftwing daily il manifesto.
    He covered Egyptian trade unions and used a pen name "because he feared for his safety", the Rome paper told ANSA.
    Also on Thursday, one of Regeni's Egyptian friends told Egyptian paper Al Ahram that the post-doctoral student was seeking contacts with labuor activists so he could interview them.
    "Security officers summoned me after Regeni disappeared (on January 25)," said the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They wanted to know about the purpose of his visit and of his studies".
    Regeni was a Cambridge University doctoral student and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
    His body showed signs of cigarette burns, stab wounds, torture, and of having suffered a "slow death", the Associated Press quoted Egyptian prosecutors as saying.
    Egyptian prosecution sources said Regeni had contusions around the eyes "as though he had been punched (as well as) signs of torture and wounds all over the body".
    The Egyptian interior ministry revealed last week that of 191 disappearances listed by the country's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), 99 occurred in custody.
   

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