Regeni ears clipped, cuts all over body

(ANSA) - Rome, February 8 - Murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni had the tops of both his ears clipped off during the torture that preceded his death, investigative sources told ANSA Monday. The body showed dozens of "little cuts", including on the soles of his feet, they said. One of Regeni's fingernails had been torn out along with one of his toenails. "There are marks of small cuts all over the body," the sources said, "on both the front and back". Among various bones broken were his collarbones, they said. Regeni, 28, a Cambridge PhD student and visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo, was found in a ditch outside Cairo last Wednesday night, over a week after disappearing on January 25, the anniversary of the uprising that led to Hosni Mubarak's ouster. He was killed by a blow that broke his neck.