Giulio Regeni: court calls Italy’s PM and foreign minister as witnesses

Move comes after pair offered assurances that Egypt’s president was willing to help in case of Italian student murdered in Cairo

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, have been called as witnesses in the unresolved case of Giulio Regeni, the student who was murdered in Cairo in 2016.

The move comes after they both offered assurances that the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, had shown a fresh willingness to collaborate with Italian authorities on the case.