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28 October 2020 The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office is ready to close the investigation in relation to the kidnapping, torture and murder of Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher killed in February 2016 in Cairo.

In fact, the two-year deadline from the registration in the register of suspects (which took place on 4 December 2018) by the prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco of the five Egyptian National Security agents is approaching.

A term that the investigative team of Ros and Sco will present today in Cairo in the summit underway since this morning with the Egyptian counterparts.



The Rome Public Prosecutor has not yet received concrete feedback to the rogatory sent to the Cairo authorities in April 2019 and nothing of significance emerged after the videoconference last July 1st between the chief prosecutor Michele Prestipino, Colaiocco himself and the delegation of magistrates Egyptians.

On that occasion, the Capitoline prosecutors had asked for answers quickly "on the election of domicile by the suspects, on the presence and statements made by one of the suspects in Kenya in August 2017, and on other activities aimed at focusing the role of other National Security subjects who are in close relations with the current five under investigation ".

For the purposes of the ongoing assessments, the investigative teams could return to see each other shortly in Rome.