Fico has talks on Regeni with Sisi

(ANSA) - Cairo, September 17 - Lower House Speaker Roberto Fico said Monday that he had talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Khalil el-Sisi about the torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni. "There was only one item on the agenda of my meeting with the president and that was the question of Giulio Regeni," Fico said. "I came because we have reached a stall". Regeni, who was researching Cairo street hawker unions for his Cambridge University, is suspected by Italian prosecutors to have been killed in early 2016 by elements in the Egyptian security apparatus - a charge Egypt rejects.
    "I think my message in coming here is clear," Fico said.
    "Cooperation, stabilization of the area and of Libya are all undoubtedly important but we want steps forward on the Giulio Regeni case rapidly, not in biblical periods of time".