Regeni defendants weaved web around Giulio - prosecutors - General News. The four Egyptian intelligence officers who are on trial in absentia in Rome for torturing to death Giulio Regeni in January-February 2016 allegedly wove a web around the Italian Cambridge University doctoral researcher.

The 28-year-old Friuliborn student disappeared on the Cairo metro on January 25, 2016 and his mutilated, semi-naked body was found in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3.