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| Italian football league plans protest over death of student in Cairo | Italian football league plans protest over death of student in Cairo |
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| Italy’s top football league is backing a public campaign to put pressure on Egypt to find those responsible for killing Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. | |
| Serie A teams will display a large yellow banner before their league games on 23-25 Aprilthat will read “Truth for Giulio”, a spokeswoman for the league said on Friday. | Serie A teams will display a large yellow banner before their league games on 23-25 Aprilthat will read “Truth for Giulio”, a spokeswoman for the league said on Friday. |
| The decision poses a potential problem for AS Roma’s Egyptian striker, Mohamed Salah, because those behind the campaign have accused the Egyptian state of being behind the murder. Egypt denies this. | The decision poses a potential problem for AS Roma’s Egyptian striker, Mohamed Salah, because those behind the campaign have accused the Egyptian state of being behind the murder. Egypt denies this. |
| La Repubblica newspaper quoted a source close to Salah on Friday as saying there was “no way he can step on to the pitch with that banner there”. Other newspapers have reported that Salah might quit Roma and Italy over the scandal. | |
| Related: Thousands of academics demand inquiry into Cairo death of Giulio Regeni | Related: Thousands of academics demand inquiry into Cairo death of Giulio Regeni |
| A spokesman for AS Roma declined to comment and the player himself was not immediately available to comment. | A spokesman for AS Roma declined to comment and the player himself was not immediately available to comment. |
| Third-placed Roma is due to play second-placed Napoli on 25 April. “[This game] is too important for a ‘diplomatic injury’ to befall one of Roma’s best players,” La Repubblica wrote, referring to Salah, who has scored 12 league goals this season. | |
| Regeni, 28, was in Egypt doing postgraduate research into labour movements when he went missing on 25 January. His body was found on 3 February and an autopsy showed he had been tortured over several days before he died. | Regeni, 28, was in Egypt doing postgraduate research into labour movements when he went missing on 25 January. His body was found on 3 February and an autopsy showed he had been tortured over several days before he died. |
| Cairo investigators initially said he had died in a traffic accident and then said he had been killed by a criminal gang. Italy has rejected both suggestions and last week recalled its ambassador from Cairo. | Cairo investigators initially said he had died in a traffic accident and then said he had been killed by a criminal gang. Italy has rejected both suggestions and last week recalled its ambassador from Cairo. |