ROME -Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt’s security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016.
The prosecutors gave the four men 20 days to respond to the charges after which, they said, they would ask a judge to indict them. The suspects were named by the prosecutors as Major Sherif Magdy, from General Intelligence; Major General Tarek Sabir, the former head of state security; police Colonel Hisham Helmy; and Colonel Ather Kamal, a former head of investigations in the Cairo municipality.
Italy originally placed five Egyptians under investigation in the case. Four of them are named in Thursday’s prosecutors’ statement, while it said there was insufficient evidence to proceed against the fifth person. The police denied this and in a statement on Nov. 30, Egypt’s public prosecution said it had evidence against a criminal gang accused of robbing Regeni but believed that “the material perpetrator” of the murder remains unknown.
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