Giulio Regeni murder in Egypt
Cambridge graduate had mysterious ’letters’ carved into his body by torturers in Egypt, post-mortem reveals
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Nick Squires, rome
8 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 4:17PM
A Cambridge University graduate who was murdered in Egypt had mysterious letters carved into his corpse during several days of torture, a post-mortem examination has revealed.
Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian who was studying for a PhD at Girton College, disappeared in Cairo in January, on the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square demonstrations which led to the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak.
He was researching the activities of anti-government trade unions. His horrifically tortured body was found dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital a week later.
A post-mortem by the Italian authorities has found that not only was he sadistically beaten over a period of several days, his torturers used knives to carve what appeared to be four or five letters into his skin.
A letter resembling an X was cut into his left hand, while other markings were carved into his back, above his right eye and on his forehead. “They used him like a blackboard,” his mother, Paola, said.
The macabre details emerged from a 220-page post-mortem report conducted by two Italian coroners, Professors Vittorio Fineschi and Marcello Chiarotti.