Italy demands concrete actions from Egypt, especially on judicial cooperation
Four years after the mutilated body of the Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni was discovered in Cairo, Italian politicians and officials are pinning hope for fresh information on an Italian parliamentary inquiry, as Egypt continues to obstruct investigations.
Regeni’s body was found on 3 February 2016, nine days after he had disappeared in the Egyptian capital. His mother, Paola, said later she only recognised his corpse by the “tip of his nose”, given the extensive torture he had endured. Widespread suspicions that Egyptian security forces were responsible for his disappearance and murder were reinforced in 2018 when Italian prosecutors named five officials as suspects.
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