Four Egyptian security officers indicted in Regeni case

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 4 - A Rome preliminary hearings judge on Monday upheld the prosecution request for four Egyptian security officers to be sent to trial in absentia for the torture and homicide of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in early 2016.
    The trial is set to open on February 20, 2024.
    The defendants must answer for a range of charges including conspiracy to commit aggravated bodily harm, aggravated murder and aggravated kidnapping.
    Earlier on Monday the same judge accepted the premier's office's request to be admitted as a civil plaintiff in the criminal case, which became possible after the Constitutional Court ended a stalemate in September by ruling that it could proceed even though the officers have not been informed of the proceedings against them, as Cairo has refused to cooperate on the case.
    (ANSA).