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Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

Italian prosecutors ask judge to try Egyptian officers over Regeni murder

CRISPIAN BALMER ITALIAN prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to have four senior members of Egypt's security services sent for trial over their suspected role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. Regeni, a postgraduate student at Britain's Cambridge University, disappeared in the Egyptian capital in January 2016. His body was found almost a week later and a post mortem examination showed he had been tortured before his death. Italian and Egyptian prosecutors investigated the case together, but the two sides later fell out and came to very different conclusions. The Rome prosecutors have…
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Italian prosecutors seek trial for four Egyptians over Regeni murder

Italian prosecutors seek trial for four Egyptians over Regeni murder

CRISPIAN BALMER and DOMENICO LUSI ITALIAN prosecutors plan to charge four senior members of Egypt's security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016. In a statement, the prosecutors said all four were suspected of taking part in the "aggravated kidnapping" of Regeni. It said one of them, a major in Egypt's general intelligence, also faced charges of "conspiracy to commit aggravated murder". The prosecutors gave the four men 20 days to respond to the charges after which, they said, they would ask a judge to indict them. "We have…
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