Mystery over brutal death of Italian researcher in Egypt deepens

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Mystery over brutal death of Italian researcher in Egypt deepens
By Seamus Kearney



"Through this act, those who want to damage Egypt and the region, and those who are linked to terrorist groups, tried to make the responsibility fall on the Interior Ministry"

CAIRO: -- The president’s office in Egypt has spoken out about the case of an Italian researcher who disappeared in January and was found dead nine days later.

After sources said Giulio Regeni had been tortured over a week, the president’s office claimed that “terrorists” were behind the killing.

“Through this act, those who want to damage Egypt and the region, and those who are linked to terrorist groups, tried to make the responsibility fall on the Interior Ministry,” said a statement from the presidency.

Egypt says its “enemies are trying to divide the country from Italy, creating a diplomatic case with a friendly country”.

On Tuesday unconfirmed judicial sources in Egypt said that Regeni had been tortured over the period of a week, in separate hour-long sessions every 10 to 14 hours.

The body has also been examined in Italy and a final report is still expected, but forensic sources confirmed torture.

Italy is said to be considering the recall of a legal team it sent to Cairo to investigate the murder because authorities are not cooperating enough.

The team has not been given access to many fundamental elements of the inquiry, including the data in Regeni’s mobile phone.

The battered body of the young man was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on February the 3rd.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-03-03

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...no word on what he was 'researching'......???

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He was a 28 year old doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, England. He was studying how trade unions organised in pre-2011 Egypt. The Guardian reported that the autopsy conducted in Rome showed that he was tortured and was beaten, burnt and mutilated. His finger and toe nails had been ripped out and the beatings had broken his ribs and given him a brain haemorrhage. What has not been broadly reported was that he was; electrocuted about the soles of his feet and his genitals, sliced over multiple parts of his body, burnt with cigarettes, and most likely savagely sodomised.

He was allegedly a supporter of liberal/leftist views. No surprise there as most kids that age and at that stage of their lives are. It was not an excuse to torture and murder him.

This is a disgusting horrible crime. Sadly, no one in Italy or the UK will take to the streets for this. Perhaps the folks who like to riot over democracies, may find some time to speak up about this poor kid.

Absolutely heartbreaking and just so very, very wrong.