(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 12 - A witness in the Rome trial in
absentia of four Egyptian security officers for torturing to
death Italian student Giulio Regeni in January-February 2016
told the court Tuesday that a suspected member of the secret
services asked a flatmate of Regeni's for a copy of the
Cambridge doctoral researcher's passport just before Christmas
2015.
'Witness Beta', a female German citizen who shared the flat with
Regeni and an Egyptian friend, Mohamed El Sayed, told the court
in a secure-mode testimony that the latter had told her "that
one day in mid-December the police came to our house and asked
for a copy of Giulio's document.
"El Sayed was convinced that this check had been carried out by
National Security, the Egyptian secret service.
"I wasn't there but he had this idea and was scared by it".
(ANSA).