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05 May 2019One of the Egyptian intelligence officials said he participated in the "withdrawal" of Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher kidnapped in Cairo on the evening of 25 January 2016 and found the body ten days later. A testimony given by Corriere della Sera and by Repubblica: "We believed it was an English spy, we took it, I went and after loading it in the car we had to beat it. I myself hit it several times in the face". This is what the agent said "to a foreign colleague during a meeting of African policemen, which took place in a country of that continent in the summer of 2017. To reveal the episode is a person who witnessed the conversation between the official of the Cairo and its interlocutor ", the newspapers write.

The Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone and substitute Sergio Colaiocco recently sent a new rogatory letter to Cairo asking for information that could provide further feedback. having had a long telephone conversation with the Egyptian president Al Sisi ".

Moreover "the official indicated by the witness is one of the five that the Rome public prosecutor has registered in the register of suspects with the charge of kidnapping". The person who "listened to the confession indicated the name and surname of the official because he saw him deliver his business card to his foreign colleague".

Count: yesterday I heard Al Sisi on Regeni and Libya
And it is the same prime minister who returns this morning on the phone call with Al Sisi: "Yesterday was a working day at Palazzo Chigi. I went to the Stato Generali in Florence, I spoke with Al Sisi, I had a long talk on the phone: there is "It is a rogatory to advocate as well as an update of the Libyan situation. Today we talk about schools. In the afternoon we have a banking system. There is so much to do".