Italian experts to travel to Egypt to probe student’s death
CAIRO — Egypt said on Sunday it has agreed to Italy’s request to send experts to try and retrieve footage from security cameras at a Cairo metro station that a murdered Italian student used the day he disappeared nearly a year ago.
A statement by Egypt’s chief prosecutor said the Italian experts would be accompanied by others from a “specialized” German company. Together, they will analyze the material in the hope of finding who is behind the disappearance of Giulio Regeni.
Regeni is known to have gone to the Dokki station on his way to visit a friend in Cairo last Jan. 25, the 5th anniversary of the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Thousands of security forces are routinely deployed in Cairo on the uprising’s anniversary, and that week police had been aggressively rounding up activists to head off protests. That has led to speculation, denied by Egypt, that Egyptian security forces were behind his abduction and death.
Regeni’s brutally tortured body was found by the side of a suburban Cairo road nearly 10 days after he disappeared.