Egypt announced on Sunday that it had informed Italy of its refusal to include Egyptian policemen as suspects in the murder of Italian researcher Julio Regini in Cairo in February 2016.
Egypt has rejected the Italian request during a meeting between the Egyptian prosecutor's delegation and his Italian counterpart in Rome last Wednesday, which discussed the latest case of Reggini, the official Egyptian news agency reported.
According to the source, the Rome prosecutor's office renewed its earlier application in December 2017, which was the approval of the Egyptian Public Prosecutor's Office to include some of the policemen - not named - on the list of so-called Italian Criminal Procedure Code "Register of suspects."
He explained that the Italian side "raised this out of doubts about the precedent of the police officers to collect information about Regini, and previously the Egyptian Attorney General rejected the Italian request during previous meetings with the Italian side," considering that the Egyptian law does not know such a record.
The Egyptian source revealed that the two sides reviewed during the meeting questions concerning the entry of Regini to Egypt under a tourist visa without the visa necessary for conducting research on the doctoral thesis on the Egyptian independent trade unions.
The source pointed out that the Italian side promised to conduct an in-depth investigation into this matter, to be presented during the upcoming meetings between the Egyptian and Italian sides.
Rome announced on Thursday the suspension of parliamentary relations with its Egyptian counterpart in protest against the conduct of investigations, and the intention of the Italian judicial authorities to conduct investigations with seven Egyptian security - not named - in Italy this week.
Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Museveno Melanesi on Friday formally summoned the Egyptian ambassador to Rome to urge Cairo to respect its commitment to act swiftly and to bring to justice those responsible for Reggini's death.