CAIRO (AP) – Italy is warning that it’s prepared to take “immediate and proportional measures” against Egypt if that government fails to come clean with all it knows about the torture and death of an Italian student in Cairo.
Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni told the Senate on Tuesday that the visit later this week by Egyptian prosecutors and police would be “decisive” to filling in gaps in the investigation into the death of Giulio Regeni.
In particular, he said, Italian prosecutors want two missing chapters of documentation concerning Regeni’s cellphone use and the closed-circuit video footage of the Cairo subway.
He warned “if there isn’t a change, the government is ready to react by adopting immediate and proportional measures.”