(ANSA) - Rome, February 16 - The family of Giulio Regeni, an Italian student murdered in Cairo, on Tuesday denied he was a spy. Speaking through a lawyer, the family said it "denies categorically and unequivocably that Giulio was an agent or collaborator of any secret service, Italian or foreign". "To try to push the theory that Giulio Regeni was a man at the service of intelligence means to offend the memory of a young university student who had made field research a legitimate ambition of study and life." Italian media have speculated that Regeni, tortured to death in the Egyptian capital, may have been working for the Italian foreign intelligence service AISE.
(ANSA) - Rome, February 16 - Egyptian police investigating the torture and death of Italian student Giulio Regeni questioned two former neighbors of the victim Tuesday. Italian investigators were also present. The two were questioned about reports that unidentified subjects showed up at the building Regeni lived in asking questions about him before his death. Doctoral student and freelance journalist Regeni went missing on January 25. His burned and mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3.
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