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Italy threatens 'immediate' action on Regeni case

05 aprile 2016 | 17.12
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Unless Egypt speeds up an investigation into the murder of Italian research student Giulio Regeni, the government will take "immediate" action, foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni warned on Tuesday.

"Unless there is a change of pace (by Egypt), the government is ready to react by adopting immediate and proportional measures," Gentiloni told Italy's Senate upper house of parliament.

Regeni's corpse with signs of torture on it was allegedly found in ditch on Cairo's western outskirts on 3 February. He had vanished on 25 January in the Egyptian capital on the heavily policed fifth anniversary of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak's ousting in a popular uprising.

"For reasons of State, we will not let Italy's dignity be trampled on," Gentiloni said. "We will only stop when we find the truth, the real one and not a convenient one."

Egypt has so far made no arrests in the case and continues to deny allegations by human rights groups that security forces were behind Regeni's torture and killing.

Rome has complained at a lack of cooperation with Italian investigators over the case after a series of possible Egyptian versions of how Regeni might have died, including at the hands of a kidnapping gang, met with disbelief in Italy.

The presentation of a 2,000 page report on Regeni's murder to Italian prosecutors by a delegation of Egyptian officials in Rome on Thursday and Friday could be "decisive" for the investigation, Gentiloni stated.

He said a dossier sent to Italy at the beginning of March by the Egyptian investigators lacked chapters on Regeni's phone traffic and on the security camera footage from the Cairo metro station where Regeni disappeared, which had been requested by Italian police.

Egypt later said Gentiloni's remarks complicated the situation, given its "assurances of full cooperation" in the Regeni case during a visit by Italian prosecutors to Cairo last month.

"We refrain from commenting on these statements which complicate the situation, particularly as they come one day prior to the arrival of the Egyptian investigators’ team in Italy to brief the Italian side on all of the developments of the investigation," said Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid in a statement.

Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University PhD student was researching independent trade unions and had written articles critical of the Egyptian government, the Italian newspaper that published the articles under a pseudonym said.

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