In the latest development in the Giulio Regeni case, the Egyptian prosecutor general has agreed to give the Italian prosecutor recorded videos from the Cairo Metro camera in relation to the case of the alleged abduction and murder of Regeni. The videos are accompanied by other documents related to the case. In a press release published on Tuesday, Nabil Sadek, the prosecutor general said that throughout the previous days “several meetings were held between the Egyptian and Italian investigative teams, and the recordings were retrieved by the most advanced scientific techniques”. This comes two weeks after the Italian news agency Ansa has reported that a Russian team has been tasked by both the Egyptian and Italian authorities to retrieve the Cairo Metro videos on the day of Regeni’s disappearance (25th of January 2016). Regeni is a Cambridge University, Italian student who did his research on independent labor unions in Egypt. He disappeared on the 25th of January 2016, and 9 days later, his body was found near Alexandria-Cairo highway bearing severe marks of torture: two dozen broken bones, as well as bruises and burn marks. The Egyptian government has consistently denied…
Guilio Regeni Case: Egyptian Prosecutor General Shares Cairo Metro Videos with Italian Counterpart
May 30, 2018
