(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 25 - Four Egyptian intelligence service members were indicted in Rome Tuesday for kidnapping, torturing and murdering Italian research student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016.
National Security General Tariq Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif will stand trial in absentia in Rome starting October 14.
A witness recently told the prosecutors that the four staged a "robbery gone wrong" to try to cover up Regeni's torture and murder.
On January 25 this year, 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.