(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 25 - More substantive cooperation is
needed from Egypt on the torture and murder of Italian student
Giulio Regeni who disappeared on the Cairo metro exactly seven
years ago, a week before his horribly mangled body was found in
a ditch outside the Egyptian capital, Foreign Minister Antonio
Tajani told the House in marking the anniversary Wednesday.
Tajani said last Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
e-Sisi had shown greater willingness to cooperate in talks in
Cairo while Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said Egyptian
cooperation would be "100%" in bringing to trial the four
Egyptian security officers whom Rome prosecutors have charged in
the case, but so far no concrete action has materialized from
the Egyptian authorities.
A Rome trial of the four officers - National Security General
Tariq Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed
Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif
- has been stymied by unsuccessful efforts to inform them they
are on trial, because of Egypt dragging its heels on the case.
Tajani told the House at Wednesday's question time: "Italy will
do everything to remove the obstacles (to progress in trying the
four spies), and in my meetings in Cairo I saw a different
willingness on Egypt's part even if the process is at a
standstill. (ANSA).