Interior Minister and Deputy Premier
Matteo Salvini on Wednesday met in Cairo with President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi and reiterated a request to shed full light on
the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, the Italian
interior ministry said.
The ministry said the talks, also involving the Egyptian
interior minister, were "long and cordial".
Other topics addressed were initiatives to boost security,
fighting clandestine immigration and terrorism, sources said.
Sisi confirmed to Salvini "the will and great desire to
arrive at definitive results in the investigations into the
murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni and to find the
criminals to do justice in this affair", Sisi's spokesman Bassam
Radi said after the two men met.
The parents of Regeni, an Italian research student tortured
and murdered in Cairo in early 2016, on Friday met with Premier
Gisueppe Conte, Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi and House
Speaker Roberto Fico.
Fico said "an initiative" was "possible" with Moavero.
Asked what it might be, he said "we are constructing".
He added "I'm confident the truth will arrive".
Italian prosecutors have said elements in the Egyptian
security apparatus were involved in Regeni's death.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has said the case was
meant to spoil bilateral relations.
Video surveillance tapes of the Cairo metro system on the day
Regeni disappeared do not have shots of the tortured and
murdered Italian research student but there are gaps in the
footage, Rome and Egyptian prosecutors said last month.
The prosecutors said their examination of the January 25,
2016 footage "enabled us to verify the absence of images
relating to Giulio Regeni inside or near Cairo metro stations".
But they said "the examination of the recordings showed there
are various time gaps in which there isn't any video footage or
images" of the Cambridge doctoral researcher, who was killed
while doing research into Cairo street seller unions.
They said that "therefore further investigations are needed
to ascertain the causes" of the gaps.
Regeni, 28, went missing on the heavily policed fifth
anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni
Mubarak.
His mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the motorway to
Alexandria on February 3, eight days later.
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