(ANSAmed) - ROME, APRIL 7 - Egyptian and Italian
investigators met Thursday to go over the case of 28-year-old
Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was abducted, tortured and
murdered in Cairo in the week between January 25 and February 3.
Italy is represented by Rome Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and others while Egypt sent Cairo Adjunct Chief Prosecutor Mostafa Soliman, International Cooperation Prosecutor Mohamed Hamdi el-Sayed, National Security General Adel Gaffar and two high-ranking police officials named as Alal Abdel Megid and Mostafa Meabed. The delegation of two Egyptian magistrates and four security officials reportedly came bearing a 2,000-page case report, including interviews with 200 witnesses with alleged connections to the victim.
Premier Matteo Renzi said yesterday that Italy owes Regeni's family the truth. "We think reaching the real truth is a duty for our country and that this is also in the interests of the Egyptian government," Renzi said. Regeni's mother said in March that when her son's body was finally returned, she only recognized him by the tip of his nose.
"At the mortuary I only recognized Giulio by the tip of his nose," Paola Deffendi said at a March 29 press conference at the Senate in Rome.
"What they did to him is unspeakable".
His severely burned, beaten, stabbed and mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3.
Egyptian authorities have offered up a number of versions as to what happened to the Italian student, none of which the Italian government has found convincing.
Regeni was a Cambridge University doctoral student and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
(ANSAmed).
Italy is represented by Rome Prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and others while Egypt sent Cairo Adjunct Chief Prosecutor Mostafa Soliman, International Cooperation Prosecutor Mohamed Hamdi el-Sayed, National Security General Adel Gaffar and two high-ranking police officials named as Alal Abdel Megid and Mostafa Meabed. The delegation of two Egyptian magistrates and four security officials reportedly came bearing a 2,000-page case report, including interviews with 200 witnesses with alleged connections to the victim.
Premier Matteo Renzi said yesterday that Italy owes Regeni's family the truth. "We think reaching the real truth is a duty for our country and that this is also in the interests of the Egyptian government," Renzi said. Regeni's mother said in March that when her son's body was finally returned, she only recognized him by the tip of his nose.
"At the mortuary I only recognized Giulio by the tip of his nose," Paola Deffendi said at a March 29 press conference at the Senate in Rome.
"What they did to him is unspeakable".
His severely burned, beaten, stabbed and mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3.
Egyptian authorities have offered up a number of versions as to what happened to the Italian student, none of which the Italian government has found convincing.
Regeni was a Cambridge University doctoral student and a visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
(ANSAmed).
