Egyptian prosecutor general Nabil
Sadek said Wednesday that an agreement would be made by the end
of the month to extract data from the hard disks of the Cairo
video surveillance system to be used for the inquiry into last
year's murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni.
The statement was made to an Italian delegation led by
prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco to Cairo.
Colaiocco left Cairo Wednesday after a two-day visit to look
into the Regeni murder, reported an airport source in the
Egyptian capital.
The source went on to say that "there were meetings between
Egyptian Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek and Egyptian officials
on the latest developments in the inquiry into the case of the
scholar" from Italy's Friuli region whose body was found just
outside of Cairo last year with signs of severe torture.
The meetings, the source continued, were held "in the
interest of both parties, in the attempt to get past this issue
for the sake of relations between the two countries".
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.
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