A breakthrough is needed on the
Cairo torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni by
year's end, Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said after talks with
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Khalil el-Sisi in the Egyptian
capital.
Regeni, who was researching Cairo street hawker unions for
his Cambridge doctorate, is believed to have been killed in
early 2016 by elements in the Egyptian security apparatus,
Italian prosecutors say, a charge Egypt rejects.
Di Maio said "the normalisation of our relations with Egypt
can only follow the truth on the death of Giulio Regeni.
"I hope that a breakthrough can be reached by rthe end of the
year".
Sisi has said in the past that Regeni was killed to hurt
Italo-Egyptian ties.
He has promised the truth on the case.
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