Italian officials probing the
abduction, torture and murder of Italian doctoral student Giulio
Regeni in Cairo over three months ago are to return to the
Egyptian capital for a new meeting with their Egyptian
counterparts on Sunday, sources said Friday.
The officials are travelling on the invitation of Egyptian
prosecutor-general Ahmed Nail Sadeq, departing Saturday and
returning Monday.
The Italian and Egyptian investigators are expected to
examine developments in the probe since an April summit in Rome
ended in failure.
The Egyptian officials could also hand over documents
requested officially by prosecutors via diplomatic means in
mid-April.
Meanwhile on Friday it emerged that the phone records of
Mohamed Abdallah, leader of the informal traders' union, are
among five sent to Rome from Egypt on Wednesday.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student
researching Egyptian trade unions, attended a meeting organised
by the union on December 14.
Regeni disappeared on January 25, the heavily policed fifth
anniversary of the uprising that toppled former strongman Hosni
Mubarak.
Italy has complained of a lack of cooperation from Cairo in
getting to the bottom of the case after Regeni's mutilated body
was found in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Egypt has proffered several unlikely versions of his death
that included a car crash, a gay lovers' quarrel, and a
kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
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