Italy to try four over student s murder in Egypt
More than five years after an Italian student s body was found in Cairo, a Rome judge says four senior Egyptian security officials should face trial over his kidnap, torture and murder.
Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University postgraduate student, disappeared in January 2016.
His body was so badly disfigured his mother could barely identify him.
The four members of the Egyptian security forces are unlikely to travel to Rome for the 14 October trial.
The murder has heightened tensions between the two countries. Italian and Egyptian investigators had originally tried to work on the case together but when Rome prosecutors pushed for a trial in late 2020, their counterparts in Cairo said there was insufficient evidence to support the accusation in court .
4 Egypt spies indicted for Regeni murder
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General, 2 colonels and major to stand trial Oct 14
25 Maggio 2021
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