Missing Italian man found dead in Egypt
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The body of an Italian student who went missing in Cairo was found half naked by the roadside with cigarette burns and other signs of torture, a senior Egyptian prosecutor said yesterday.
In Rome, Italy’s foreign ministry summoned the Egyptian ambassador to express concern over the death of Giulio Regeni, who disappeared on January 25, the five-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
The body of the 28-year-old Cambridge University doctoral student was taken to a Cairo morgue, a morgue worker and security officials said.
Security officials said an investigation had begun. Regeni was found on Wednesday at the start of the highway from Cairo to Alexandria, they said.
A friend said Regeni had disappeared after leaving his home in a smart district in Cairo to meet another friend downtown.
Last year, Islamic State militants kidnapped a Croatian man from the outskirts of Cairo and later beheaded him, but such incidents are rare and there was a heavy police presence in downtown Cairo when Regeni went missing.
Although the cause of death is still unclear, Regeni’s case could hurt Egypt’s efforts to project an image of stability and attract more tourism and foreign investment after years of political turmoil and militant violence.
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