Judicial cooperation to
resolve the case of tortured and slain Italian researcher Giulio
Regeni is "essential" to relations with Egypt, Foreign Minister
Angelino Alfano said on Monday.
Italy is "evaluating the development of judicial cooperation"
with the authorities in Cairo, "which for us is essential for
the continuation of a certain kind of relationship with Egypt,"
Alfano said.
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.
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