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.
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