Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said
Wednesday that Italy would never give up seeking the truth about
the "barbaric slaying" of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo
in early 2016 and would also keep up "all efforts" to see that
Bologna University Egyptian student Patrick Zaki is released.
In a statement to the Senate on the foreign ministry's agenda,
Di Maio added that "at the same time it is however important to
keep open with Cairo also a channel of dialogue on the
fundamental questions for the stability of the Mediterranean,
such as for example Libya and energy security".
On January 25, the fifth anniversary of Regeni's disappearance
on the Cairo metro, President Sergio Mattarella demanded a
response from Egypt over the Friuli-born student's torture and
murder.
The brutalised body of the Cambridge University doctoral
researcher into Egyptian street unions was found a week later,
on February 3, 2016.
He had been tortured so badly his mother said she only
recognised him by the tip of his nose.
Rome prosecutors have requested that four members of Egypt's
security services face trial in relation to the case.
Postgraduate student Zaki has been held on charges of inciting
protests in Egypt since February 7 last year.
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