Europe must 'seek truth in Regeni case'

(ANSA) - Rome, April 11 - Europe should cooperate to seek the truth in the investigation of the murder of an Italian doctoral student in Cairo, Giulio Regeni, Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini said on Monday.
    ''Regeni was killed with clear signs of torture: I think that European citizenship should also be exercised in this case,'' Boldrini said.
    ''When a European citizen is treated in such a way, I believe that the Europe of rights should jointly ask for the truth''.
    Italy's ambassador Maurizio Massari left Egypt on Sunday, two days after the government said it was recalling him to protest for what is described as a lack of cooperation in the probe on the murder case.
    Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student researching Egyptian trade unions, was found in a ditch outside Cairo on February 3 after disappearing on January 25, the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
    Egypt's interior ministry has denied the involvement of security forces in the killing.
    Massari is scheduled to meet with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Tuesday to discuss which measures to take to give Egypt ''a new signal of dissatisfaction'' over the level of cooperation between police and magistrates on the case, which Gentiloni described as ''insufficient''.
    The Italian foreign minister, who was attending a G-7 ministerial meeting in Japan, said Sunday that meetings last week in Rome between Italian and Egyptian prosecutors did not give the expected results.
    He added that any measure to be decided next would be ''proportional'' and would not ''unleash world wars''.