He is said to have been sending articles under a pseudonym to Italy’s self-styled Communist newspaper Il Manifesto.
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“What we are certainly doing is urging the Egyptian government to allow Italian authorities a joint investigation, to return the boy’s body to his family as soon as possible, to collaborate”.
Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian graduate studying for his PhD at Cambridge University, went missing on the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution. He also asked for “full access by our representatives to follow the developments in the investigation first hand and find those responsible for this frightful crime and bring them to justice”, the source said. “The body was naked from the waist down”, Negi said.
An initial prosecution report seen by an AFP reporter said that the injuries included apparent cigarette-burn marks near the eyes and on the feet.
“We have to wait for the full report by forensic experts”. Egypt denies allegations of police brutality. The priest presiding over the service emphasized that Regeni had been “seeking truth”.
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While mainly contained in northern Sinai, militants have carried out a series of attacks in more central parts of the country, including the bombing of the Italian Consulate in Cairo and the kidnapping and beheading of a Croatian oil surveyor who was working in the capital in August a year ago.
