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Italian Prosecutor in Cairo Discussing Regeni Case

December 22, 2017
A man holds a placard during a vigil to commemorate Giulio Regeni, who was found murdered in Cairo a year ago, in downtown Rome, Italy January 25, 2017. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Egypt’s public prosecutor Nabil Sadek met on Thursday with his Italian counterpart Giuseppe Pignatone in Cairo for discussions of developments into the brutal murder of Italian PhD researcher Giulio Regeni last year in Cairo, a joint statement by the prosecutors said. The meeting dealt with the latest details emerging from the ongoing investigation, particularly discussing the work in retrieving security camera footage recorded at Cairo’s Dokki Metro station allegedly showing the Italian student the same night of his death on January 25 2016. Pignatone also handed over a report to the Egyptian prosecution that had been prepared by the Italian police based on documents previously shared by Egypt with Italy. During a meeting earlier this week between president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Italy’s Interior Minister Marco Minniti, the Egyptian leader emphasized his country’s “sincere determination” to get to the bottom of the murder of Regeni. Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University PhD candidate, was a visiting student at The American University in Cairo (AUC) researching labor rights in Egypt. He went missing in Cairo on 25th January, on the anniversary of the Egyptian uprising, on his way to meet a friend….


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