Egypt vows to shed light on ‘tortured’ Italian student death

Rome: Egypt’s president on Wednesday vowed to do everything he could to shed light on the fate of an Italian student found dead in Cairo bearing signs of having been tortured.
The corpse of Cambridge University PhD student Giulio Regeni, 28, was found dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo in February, in a case that has strained ties between Italy and Egypt.
Egyptian authorities are working “day and night” to solve the crime, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said in an interview with Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper.
“I promise you that we will do everything to shed light (on the case) and we will get to the truth,” he said.
Addressing Regeni’s family, he added: “We will work with the Italian authorities to bring to justice and punish the criminals that killed your son.”
Sissi said that as a “father first and foremost,” he understood the “pain and suffering that you feel at the loss of your son.”
“I feel the shock and bitterness that has broken your heart,” he said.
Regeni disappeared on January 25. Many Italians and Egyptian opposition figures believe he was abducted and killed by elements of the Egyptian security services, an allegation the authorities in Cairo have rejected as baseless.