nsnbc : The body of Guilio Regeni who died in Egypt under suspicious circumstances was flown from Egypt to Italy. The repatriation of the remains of the Italian student came one day after an Italian delegation arrived in Cairo. Egyptian and Italian authorities agreed to conduct a joint investigation. The body of Regeni showed apparent signs of torture.
Regeni was a Cambridge PhD student at Girton College in the department of Political and International Department. He was a visiting scholar for the American University in Cairo.
Regeni went reportedly missing on Jan. 25 as he was heading from Giza’s Behoos metro station to Bab-el-Louk in downtown. Giulio Regeni’s body was found on Thursday, February 23, in the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road.
He was found after a campaign launched by colleges, fellow students and after the Italian government prompted the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to stress that security forces did everything in their power to track down Giulio Regeni.
nsnbc has not had access to the body or to autopsy reports. Egyptian and Italian authorities report that initial investigations carried out by the Egyptian prosecution, showed that his remains showed signs of torture and that his death was likely caused by an criminal act. Egyptian authorities stated that they would issue a forensic medical report within a few days.
An Italian delegation arrived in Cairo on Friday, the day before the repatriation of Giulio Regeni. The delegation comprises seven officials who will join the investigation conducted by Egyptian police.
A friend of Regeni,
Giulio was studying for a PhD at the University of Cambridge, and was carrying out research on the formation of independent trade unions in post-Mubarak Egypt. There is little doubt that his work would have been extremely important in his field, and he had a career ahead of him as an important scholar of the region.
Giulio, originally from Fiumicello in north-east Italy, had a strong international background and outlook. As a teenager, he won a scholarship that allowed him to spend two formative years studying at the United World College in New Mexico. He was especially passionate about Egypt. Before beginning his doctoral research, he spent time in Cairo working for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). At the age of 28, he stood out with his big hopes and dreams, and he was committed to pursuing a career that would allow him to make an impact on the world, which is a poorer place for his passing.
It is at this point in time uncertain whether or not Giulio Regeni has had ties to a foreign intelligence service or to any of the outlawed organizations in Egypt. It is, however, noteworthy that American Universities are known for being hotbeds for western intelligence services’ formal and informal “assets”; the American University in Cairo included.
The list of Alumni from The American University in Cairo includes, among others, CIA Director John Brennan and New York Times “columnist” Thomas Friedman. The United World College is also a U.S. funded college and also known as hub for western intelligence assets.
This does, however, not imply that Regeni necessarily was working for or was an asset of any such service. His death, and any attempts to politicize his tragic end, must be viewed as “mysterious” and with some skepticism until more facts may – or may not be revealed.
F/AK – nsnbc 06.02.2016
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