Egypt provides documents for Italian murder probe

Egyptian prosecutors have given Italian investigators documents requested by Rome to help their probe into the kidnapping and murder of an Italian student in Cairo last year. Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University PhD student, disappeared in the CBD in January last year and his body showed signs of torture. ‘The Egyptian investigators gave their Italian counterparts the first bunch of documents requested by the Rome prosecution,’ said a joint statement released by the Egyptian and Italian prosecutions. A report on the News24 site notes that it followed a visit by the investigators to Cairo. Egypt had previously dismissed as ‘unconstitutional’ the request by Italy to retrieve thousands of phone records from the areas where Regeni lived, disappeared and where his body was found. An agreement is expected to be reached enabling the prosecutors to obtain footage from CCTV cameras from a Cairo metro station where Regeni is believed to have entered before being abducted.

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