Egypt refuses to accuse police officers suspected by Italy of involvement in the murder of an Italian student, AFP news agency reports the authorities as saying. The policemen are suspected by Italian prosecutors of gathering information about Giulio Regeni, a judicial source told AFP.
The Italian prosecutors asked their Egyptian counterparts “to approve the inclusion of a number of Egyptian policemen on its register of suspects in Italy”, the source added.
But Egypt’s authorities said there is not enough evidence to proceed. “Charges should be based on evidence and not suspicions,” Egypt’s State Information Service said in a statement released late on Sunday.
He was researching independent trade unions – a politically sensitive in Egypt, where the government has intensified a crackdown on unofficial protest movements in recent years.
