Italy: Cairo should 'come out' with truth about Italian student death
Italy’s foreign minister says the Egyptian government should “come out” with the truth about the shocking death of an Italian student in Egypt, emphasizing that Rome will seek “every last bit of truth” on the matter.
Speaking in London, where he was attending a conference on Syria, Paolo Gentiloni called on Egyptian officials to reveal the truth about the death of Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni.
“We owe that much to a family that has been stricken in an irreparable way and, at the very least, has the right to know the truth,” Gentiloni said.
The Italian foreign minister said Italian experts should be included in the investigation into the 28-year-old’s death “because we want the truth to come out, every last bit of it.”
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday discovered the half-naked and badly beaten body of Regeni dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The signs of cigarette burns on Regeni’s face and feet and other wounds and bruises on his body left no doubt that he was murdered.
The PhD student, who was working on his thesis in Cairo, had disappeared on January 25 after leaving his home to meet a friend downtown.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned the Egyptian ambassador, calling for maximum cooperation from Cairo on the incident.
The Italian ministry said in a statement that Italy renewed its plea for launching an immediate probe by Cairo into the death.
The statement also called on Egyptian officials to return the body of Regeni to Italy.
The horrible death could badly strain Egypt’s relations with Italy, as Rome has served over the years as one of the major trade and political partners of Cairo in Europe.
In July 2015, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hailed Egypt’s military-backed President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a “great leader.”
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