Cairo ‘bows to pressure from Rome’:

Egyptian detectives probing the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni have agreed to extend the investigation after pressure from Rome, Italian interior minister Angelino Alfano said Sunday.

The Italian government vocally objected to Egypt’s insistence on Thursday that they had identified a criminal gang linked to Regeni’s murder, after killing four members and finding the student’s passport in one of the suspect’s apartments. Italian media and Western diplomatic sources in Cairo have voiced suspicions that Egyptian security services kidnapped and tortured to death the 28-year-old Cambridge University graduate student.

“It is important that in the face of our emphasis on the quest for truth, the Egyptians changed tack in a few hours and told us that their investigations are continuing,” Alfano told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.