Egypt Regeni delegation set to arrive

(ANSA) - Rome, April 6 - An Egyptian delegation of prosecutors and police officials is set to arrive in Rome late Wednesday for meetings Thursday and Friday with Rome prosecutors investigating the Cairo torture and death of Italian student Giulio Regeni.
    Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has vowed "immediate and proportional action" unless there is a "change of pace" by Egyptian authorities, whose several versions of Regeni's death have so far sparked incredulity in Rome amid widespread rumours Egyptian security forces may have been involved.
    Egyptian President Mohamed Fatah el-Sisi has vowed to provide full cooperation from now on.
    Meanwhile an anonymous source claiming to be part of the Egyptian secret police has written to Rome daily La Repubblica accusing Egyptian authorities, including Sisi, of ordering Regeni's abduction and revealing details of his torture, such as beatings on the soles of his feet, that have never before been made public but were known to Italian prosecutors, the Rome daily said Wednesday.
    And Cairo sources of Turin daily La Stampa said that the person Egypt is willing to "sacrifice" to put an end to the controversy over its perceived stonewalling is Generale Khaled Shalabi, the high-ranking national-security official entrusted with the Regeni case.
    Shalabi, condemned by an Alexandria court in 2003 for having tortured to death an Egyptian man and falsified police reports, was restored to his position after the sentence was suspended.