(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 2 - One of the four Egyptian intelligence
officers on trial in absentia in Rome in the January-February
2016 torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni took
part in the joint Egyptian-Italian initial investigations into
the Cambridge University doctoral researcher's death, witnesses
told the trial Thursday.
In the inspection carried out on 10 February 2016 on the site
where Regeni's half-naked and mutilated body was found in a
ditch on the Cairo-Alexandria highway on February 3, an
inspection carried out by the two investigation teams, one
Egyptian and the other Italian, one of the defendants in the
trial in Rome, intelligence officer Uhsam Helm, was also
present, said a witness. (ANSA).