(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 12 - A witness on Thursday told the Rome
trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officers accused of
having kidnapped, tortured and killed Giulio Regeni in
January-February 2016 that one of the suspects admitting to
"cutting up" the Italian doctoral student.
The witness said heard Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdel Sharif made the
admission n a restaurant in Nairobi in September 2017.
The witness told the court that he heard Sharif say: "in our
country, we had the case of an Italian academic who we thought
was CIA and also Mossad. He was a problem because he was popular
among ordinary people. We finally caught him: we cut him up, we
destroyed him. I hit him'" (ANSA).
Egyptian official admitted 'cutting up Regeni' - witness (2)
Authorities thought Italian was CIA or Mossad spy
