Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi, ex-premier Matteo Renzi and former Foreign Minister
Paolo Gentiloni are among the names on the witness lists filed
by the parties in the trial against four Egyptian intelligence
officers accused of the kidnapping, torture and murder of
Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in January-February 216,
whose proceedings open Tuesday before the First Assize Court in
Rome, legal sources said Monday.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University doctoral researcher
into independent Egyptian trade unions, disappeared on the Cairo
metro on January 25, 2016 and his semi-naked body was found in a
ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3, mutilated so
badly his mother only recognised him from the tip of his nose.
Other officials on the witness lists are former national
security chief Marco Minnit, the three heads of the Italian
security services who have been in in place during and since the
incident, the then Italian foreign ministry secretary-general
Elisabetta Belloni, and the CEO of Italian energy giant Eni,
Claudio Descalzi.
The four Egyptian security officials, National Security General
Tariq Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed
Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif,
have been put on trial in absentia after Cairo long stonewalled
in the case and refused to give their addresses or contact
numbers.
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