Egypt chose to protect Regeni's killers says Rome prosecutor

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 23 - Egypt chose to protect the men who tortured Giulio Regeni to death rather than make them face justice, Rome Deputy Chief Prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco said on Tuesday in his closing arguments in the in-absentia trial of four members of the Egyptian security services for the homicide. The 28-year-old student's half-naked body was found in a ditch on the Cairo-Alexandria highway on February 3, 2016, a week after he disappeared on the Cairo metro on January 25. "A body shat...

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