Video surveillance taps of the Cairo
metro system on the day Giulio Regeni disappeared do not have
shots of the tortured and murdered Italian research student but
there are gaps in the footage, Rome and Egyptian prosecutors
said Wednesday.
The prosecutors said their examination of the January 25,
2016 footage "enabled us to verify the absence of images
relating to Giulio Regeni inside or near Cairo metro stations".
But they said "the examination of the recordings showed there
are various time gaps in which there isn't any video footage or
images" of the Cambridge doctoral researcher, who was killed
while doing research into Cairo street seller unions.
They said that "therefore further investigations are needed
to ascertain the causes" of the gaps.
Regeni, 28, went missing on the heavily policed fifth
anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni
Mubarak.
His mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the motorway to
Alexandria on February 3, eight days later.
Italian prosecutors have said so-far-unidentified parts of
the Egyptian security apparatus are implicated in the case.
Egypt has denied all part in the death.
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