There have been no steps or
overtures from Egypt after Rome prosecutors placed five Egyptian
spies and police under investigation in the 2011 torture and
murder in Cairo of Italian student Giulio Regeni, Rome Chief
Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone told the COPASIR parliamentary
secret service oversight body Tuesday.
The situation is one of stalemate, Pignatone said.
On the Italian side, he said, everything possible had been
done.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambride doctoral researcher working on
Egyptian street unions, disappeared on January 25, 2011, the
heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted
former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
His mutilated body was found in a ditch on the highway to
Alexandria just over a week later, on February 3.
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