Premier Paolo Gentiloni said on
the Giulio Regeni case Thursday that "there is a path the
government has been seeking to follow, that of firmness and
requests for cooperation.
"Lately I have seen very useful signs of cooperation from
Egypt, I hope they will develop and the government will work for
that".
He said "the collaboration between Rome prosecutors and Cairo
prosecutors has produced results".
The possible involvement of the head of the Cairo street
vendors' union had been "anticipated" by Egypt's
prosecutor-general in Rome talks, Gentiloni noted.
Saying that he had been in touch with Regeni's parents on
Christmas Day, the premier said: "I have nothing to add on the
gravity of the affair, to what I have been saying for 11 months.
"I know that it is one of the affairs that rightly has most
struck our public opinion".
Cambridge doctoral student Regeni, 28, went missing on
January 25, the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the
uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak, and his
tortured and maimed body turned up in a ditch outside Cairo six
days later, on February 3.
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.
Several concocted explanations of Regeni's death have been
rejected, from a car accident to a gay quarrel turned ugly to a
kidnap for ransom that went wrong.
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