ROME - CCTV footage and the minutes of new hearings by the nine police officers involved in the investigations into the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni were released and handed over to Rome prosecutors. 

 The Italian Ambassador to Cairo Giampaolo Cantini revealed this development to Italian TV on Tuesday.

 The newly released material “collected in recent weeks as part of the investigations carried out” makes up around 5 percent of the total recorded from inside the Cairo underground.

 Regeni, a Cambridge University graduate, was found dead in a ditch on the Cairo highway on 3^rd February 2016. He had been researching independent trade unions in Egypt, when he was kidnapped, tortured and killed.

 The new footage will be analysed in an attempt to discover more about Giulio and the perpetrators and shed light on the events of that fateful night.

 The Attorney General of Egypt, Nabeel Sadek handed over the material to Prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco following the conclusion of a 15-day joint investigation carried out by a Russian team, alongside Italian and Egyptian investigators.

 The Roman prosecutor Giseppe Pignatone personally called Sadek to offer “his thanks and his gratitude for the great efforts made by the Egyptian prosecutor over the last year to recover the recordings of the underground surveillance cameras.”

 The two prosecutors have “renewed their commitment to continue the judicial cooperation…until they reach the truth and identify the guilty and refer them to trial.”

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