Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
el-Sisi wants to find the people who tortured and murdered
Italian researcher Giulio Regeni last year, the deputy head of
the Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee, Tarek El
Khouly, said Monday.
"I think there is an order from the Egyptian political
leaders, from the president in person, to the general prosecutor
to discover who killed Regeni, whoever that may be," El Khouly
told ANSA.
"I think that, in any part of the world, mistakes are made by
security apparatus. Perhaps it is a crime concerning an Egyptian
security apparatus, perhaps not," said El Khouly, adding that
the Regeni case had been politically "exploited" in both Egypt
and Italy and urging a "separation" between Italy-Egypt ties and
the case.
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.
It recently emerge that the head of the Egyptian street
sellers' trade union secretly filmed Regeni for the Cairo police
in December 2015. The official, Mohammed Abdallah, said he had
agreed to do his patriotic duty because Regeni was a "spy".
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