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Giza police chief 'behind Regeni's killing'

06 aprile 2016 | 17.53
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The Egyptian police chief who led the initial probe into the death of doctoral student Giulio Regeni ordered his abduction and murder, Italian media claimed Wednesday, citing an anonymous informant in Egypt's intelligence services.

Giza's police investigations chief Khaled Shalabi gave the order to abduct Regeni and previously had him followed and his apartment searched, La Repubblica newspaper said, citing an email in Arabic from the informant.

Twenty-eight-year-old Regeni's battered and mutilated body was allegedly found in a ditch on Cairo's western outskirts on 3 February, nine days after he vanished in the Egyptian capital. He was researching independent trade unions and had written articles critical of Sisi that were published in an Italian newspaper under a pseudonym.

Egyptian authorities wanted Regeni to reveal his contacts in the trade union movement, La Repubblica quoted the informant as claiming. Regeni refused and was subjected to increasingly brutal questioning, leading to his eventual death at the hands of military intelligence services, according to the informant.

La Repubblica also implicated Egypt's leadership including president and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Cambridge University PhD student's death, saying they were aware of and approved his abduction.

This informant also contacted Italian prosecutors and was believed to be credible because they provided details of the torture of Regeni that have not been disclosed so far to the public, La Repubblica reported.

After Regeni's death from a blow to the back of the head, Sisi and top security officials decided to dump his body by the Cairo-Alexandria highway after dark to make it appear he had been the victim of a robbery and homosexual assault, La Repubblica cited the informant as claiming.

A delegation of Egyptians due in Rome on Thursday to present a 2,000-page dossier on the ongoing investigation will seek to pin the blame on Shalabi in their meetings with Italian prosecutors, the daily said.

Italian newspaper La Stampa also alleged that Shalabi was the prime suspect in Regeni's murder, without elaborating.

Shalabi received a one-year suspended jail sentence in 2003 for his role in the death under torture of a detainee at police station in Alexandria, according to human rights groups, security and judicial sources and court documents.

It was hard to say when the investigation of the "difficult" case would be completed, foreign minstry spokesman Ahmad Abu Zayd said on Wednesday in a TV interview.

Egypt has so far made no arrests over Regeni's killing and its lines of enquiry so far including an alleged kidnapping gang wearing police uniforms have met with disbelief in Italy.

Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni on Tuesday threatened "immediate and proportional" measures against Egypt if Cairo did not speed up the probe, cooperate fully with Italian investigators and bring Regeni's killers to justice.

Regeni's brutal killing has appalled Italy and has strained usually friendly relations with its trading partner.

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