Contact with Egypt prosecutors restored

(see previous) (ANSA) - Rome, April 29 - Contact has been restored between Italian and Egyptian prosecutors on the Cairo torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday.
    "The Rome prosecutor's office has sent a new request (for information) and I know that contacts between the prosecutors' office are ongoing," he said on RAI radio.
    Gentiloni voiced the hope that Rome Chief Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone's "activity can revive some useful contacts".
    But in the meantime, he stressed, Italy was "maintaining a position of dissatisfaction".
    Italy broke off judicial collaboration and recalled its ambassador on April 8 after a summit in Rome failed.
    Rome has repeatedly called for records of phone calls made in the areas where Regeni disappeared and where his body was found 10 days later.