Europe should cooperate to seek
the truth in the investigation of the murder of an Italian
doctoral student in Cairo, Giulio Regeni, Lower House Speaker
Laura Boldrini said on Monday.
''Regeni was killed with clear signs of torture: I think
that European citizenship should also be exercised in this
case,'' Boldrini said.
''When a European citizen is treated in such a way, I
believe that the Europe of rights should jointly ask for the
truth''.
Italy's ambassador Maurizio Massari left Egypt on Sunday,
two days after the government said it was recalling him to
protest for what is described as a lack of cooperation in the
probe on the murder case.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student
researching Egyptian trade unions, was found in a ditch outside
Cairo on February 3 after disappearing on January 25, the
heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted
former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's interior ministry has denied the involvement of
security forces in the killing.
Massari is scheduled to meet with Italian Foreign Minister
Paolo Gentiloni on Tuesday to discuss which measures to take to
give Egypt ''a new signal of dissatisfaction'' over the level of
cooperation between police and magistrates on the case, which
Gentiloni described as ''insufficient''.
The Italian foreign minister, who was attending a G-7
ministerial meeting in Japan, said Sunday that meetings last
week in Rome between Italian and Egyptian prosecutors did not
give the expected results.
He added that any measure to be decided next would be
''proportional'' and would not ''unleash world wars''.
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