Italy has recalled
its ambassador to Egypt for consultations over the murder of student Giulio
Regeni in
Cairo.
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| Giulio Regeni |
It comes after Egyptian officials briefed their Italian
counterparts on the investigation into the killing.
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni tweeted (in
Italian) that Italy wanted "one thing only: the truth about Giulio".
Rights groups have suggested security forces were to blame,
but Egypt says a criminal gang was behind his murder.
Mr Regeni, 28, disappeared on his way to meet a friend on
January 25. His body, mutilated and showing signs of torture, was found in a
ditch on February 3.
Swift action
The Italian foreign ministry said it had recalled Ambassador
Maurizio Massari for "an urgent evaluation" of what steps to take to
"ascertain the truth about the barbaric murder of Giulio Regeni".
Egypt's probe into the death of Mr Regeni came under strong criticism
after successive and sometimes contradictory accounts were issued by the
Egyptian authorities.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said Italy will not settle
for what he called a "convenient truth", and promised swift action if
the meeting failed to produce concrete results.
Many in Italy think that Mr Regeni could have been targeted
by the Egyptian intelligence services because of his research on trade unions
and activism.
The Egyptian team indicated that they were still considering
the possibility the student was abducted by an anti-foreigner criminal gang
whose members all died in a police shoot-out last month.
In a statement, the Italian prosecutor "reiterated his
conviction that there are no elements to directly link the gang to the torture
and death of Giulio Regeni".
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