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WORLD NEWSMonday 14 March 2016

Egypt media says country is facing Euro-Islamist conspiracy

MARAM MAZEN In this Feb. 12, 2016 file photo, the family of Giulio Regeni follows his coffin during the funeral service in Fiumicello, Northern Italy.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian
media and lawmakers Muslim Brotherhood and a late Saturday. talk show hosts, insinuated cameras have captured
have accused the Muslim collection of anti-Egypt hu- In the state-run Al-Ahram Saturday that the Italian footage of Regeni and an-
Brotherhood of bribing Eu- man rights organizations. newspaper’s Sunday edi- embassy may be covering other Italian man in a quar-
ropean Parliament mem- “The Muslim Brotherhood tion, a headline read: “The up crucial evidence in the rel close to the consulate, a
bers to adopt a resolution pays all these people in Eu- European Parliament has case that would link Re- day before Regeni disap-
stating a “grave concern” rope ... they have influence fallen in the trap of the in- geni’s death to a personal peared. “I am here chal-
that Egyptian authorities over all these people,” ternational organization of dispute. lenging the Italian ambas-
might be culprits in the tor- lawmaker and retired Maj. the Muslim Brotherhood.” Moussa claimed on the sador in Cairo to release
ture and killing of an Italian Gen. Hamdy Bekheet told Ahmed Moussa, one of Sada el-Balad channel the information he has,”
graduate student in Egypt. the el-Mehwar channel the country’s most popular that the Italian consulate’s said Moussa.
The Thursday resolution
condemned the killing of
28-year-old researcher
and graduate student Gi-
ulio Regeni, whose body
was found with torture
marks nine days after he
vanished in Cairo on Jan.
25 — when police were
out in force to quash any
signs of protest on the an-
niversary of Egypt’s 2011
uprising. Egyptian authori-
ties say they are investigat-
ing the case. The resolution
stated that the European
Parliament is concerned
the case “is not an isolated
incident, but that it oc-
curred within a context of
torture, death in custody
and enforced disappear-
ances across Egypt in re-
cent years.” Evening talk
shows are one of Egypt’s
main shapers of pub-
lic opinion. On Saturday
night, a steady stream of
hosts and guests outlined a
variety of conspiracy theo-
ries designed to weaken
and isolate Egypt — with
the help of the outlawed