ROME, Oct 15 ― Four senior members of Egypt's security services will stand trial in absentia in an Italian court today over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. Italy hopes the trial will shed light on a killing that shocked the country.
Italy is putting on trial four Egyptian intelligence agents suspected of torturing and murdering student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. The case has poisoned. 14.10.2021, Sputnik International
An Italian judge suspended on Thursday the trial of four Egyptian security officials over the disappearance and murder of anItalian student who was killed in Egypt, because of concerns the men might not know about they had been charged.
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Italian prosecutors say their investigation showed that four Egyptian officials were responsible for the aggravated kidnapping of Regeni, while one of the four was also involved in a conspiracy to commit aggravated murder.
Presiding over a preliminary hearing, Judge Pierluigi Balestrieri said there was sufficient evidence to indict the men and ordered that their trial start on October 14.
There was no immediate comment from Egypt. Egyptian police and officials have repeatedly denied any involvement in Regeni s disappearance and killing.
Italian and Egyptian prosecutors investigated the case together, but the two sides later fell out and came to very different conclusions.