A Rome probe into the torture
and murder in Cairo of Italian research student Giulio Regeni
has accelerated and the first suspects will be probed soon,
sources said Wednesday.
Regeni, 28, disappeared in Cairo on January 25, 2016, the
heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that felled
former strongman Hosni Mubarak, and his mutilated body was found
in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Speaking after the latest and 10th meeting between Egyptian
and Roman investigators this week, the sources said Italian
prosecutors plan on citing Egyptian police and secret service
agents who were recently identified by Italian special police
units ROS and SCO.
Regeni, from the northern Friuli region, was researching
Egyptian street sellers' unions for Cambridge University, a
politically sensitive issue.
The head of the Cairo street sellers' union said he fingered
Regeni to scurity services as a spy.
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