Italian intelligence sources on
Friday denied press reports of links between the intelligence
services and Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher murdered in
Cairo. "All and any link by Giulio Regeni with Italian
intelligence is to be categorically denied," they said. The
sources said "indescribable falsehoods and exploitation" of the
affair were to be "refuted with determination". The sources
expressed "amazement and consternation" at the reports. Regeni,
28, was found dead in a ditch Wednesday night, his body bearing
signs of torture. The Cambridge PhD researcher was working at
the American University in Cairo and secretly freelancing with
Rome daily il manifesto on the Egyptian trade union movement.
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