Rome prosecutors sent a formal
petition to the British authorities on October 9 to be able to
question Giulio Regeni's Cambridge University tutor, Professor
Maha Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, La Repubblica reported on Thursday.
The Rome-based daily reported that the prosecutors also want
to acquire the professor's mobile and fixed-line phone records
from between January 2015 and February 28 2016 to reconstruct
her network of relations.
The move regards alleged ambiguity and omissions by the woman
in relation to the probe into the torture and murder of the
28-year-old Italian post-graduate student in Egypt early last
year, La Repubblica wrote in an article entitled 'The Lies of
Cambridge'.
It also reportedly relates to unease expressed by Regeni in
two Skype conversations with his mother Paola.
Rome prosecutors want clarification on several aspects of the
case, the newspaper said.
These regard how the subject of Regeni's research on street
traders was chosen, the selection of his tutor in Egypt, the
research method used, who decided what questions to ask the
traders and whether Regeni gave the results of his research to
Professor Abdel Rahman during a meeting in Cairo on January 7,
2016.
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