Regeni murdered by 'cold, methodological violence' - Rome prosecutor

Giulio Regeni was tortured to death

by the use of "cold, methodological, organized violence against

defenceless man," 'Rome Deputy Chief Prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco

said on Tuesday in his closing arguments in the in-absentia

trial of four members of the Egyptian security services.

The 28-year-old student's half-naked body was found in a ditch

on the Cairo-Alexandria highway on February 3, 2016, a week

after he disappeared on the Cairo metro on January 25.

Regeni, a Friuli-born Cambridge University doctoral researcher

into Cairo street unions, was allegedly abducted and tortured to

death by National Security General Tariq Sabir and his

subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Helmi,

and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif.

The four have not attended any of the trial hearings after Egypt

refused to notify them of the proceedings.

"What is being judged here is the abduction of a person stripped

of all protection," Colaiocco said.

"What is being judged here is prolonged torture as an instrument

of domination.

"That man had a name, a face, a story: Giulio Regeni, an Italian

citizen, a young researcher. A free man".

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