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WORLD NEWSTuesday 9 February 2016

Migrant crisis: Italy urges Egypt to help find
who tortured, killed student
Germany, Turkey vow effort to end violence

SUZAN FRASER was “not just appalled but Monday that another 27 FRANCES D’EMILIO plied: “It didn’t happen.
GEIR MOULSON horrified” by the suffering migrants had died after Associated Press We stressed that to many
Associated Press caused by the bombing in their boat capsized in the ROME (AP) — Italy kept officials. We stress it once
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — As Syria, primarily by Russia. Bay of Edremit while trying pressure on Egypt Mon- again.”
day to cooperate in find- Asked if Regeni was a spy,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu shake hands ing who tortured and mur- the Egyptian minister re-
during a welcoming ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016. Merkel is meeting Davu- dered an Italian student plied: “Not at all. We are
toglu and other Turkish officials for talks on reducing the influx of migrants to Europe. Turkey, a key doing research in Cairo, dealing with a crime com-
country on the migrant route to Europe, is central to Merkel’s diplomatic efforts to reduce the flow. insisting it wouldn’t accept mitted against a foreign
convenient answers in the national.”
(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) case. “There were rumors and talk
“We won’t settle for pur- in the press hinting and link-
tens of thousands of Syrians Merkel said Turkey and to reach the Greek island ported truths, as we have ing the security apparatus
fleeing violence massed at Germany would push at of Lesbos. said on the occasion of the to the incident,” the min-
Turkey’s border, Turkish and the United Nations for all Her visit came after a Rus- two arrests initially linked to ister said. “This is rejected.
German leaders pledged sides to adhere to a U.N. sian-backed Syrian gov- the death of Giulio Rege- This is not the policy of the
Monday to redouble dip- resolution passed in De- ernment offensive around ni,” Foreign Minister Paolo Egyptian security service.”
lomatic efforts to end the cember that calls for an Aleppo sent up to 35,000 Gentiloni insisted in an in- Gentiloni’s remarks about
fighting around the em- immediate halt to attacks Syrians fleeing toward the terview published in La Re- “purported truths” referred
battled Syrian city of Alep- on civilians in Syria. border with Turkey in re- pubblica newspaper. to statements last week by
po and prevent more refu- Merkel was in Ankara for cent days. “We want those who are some Egyptian authorities -
gees making their way into talks on how to reduce the Turkey has taken in 2.5 mil- really responsible to be later denied - that two sus-
Europe. influx of migrants into Eu- lion Syrian refugees since found out, and be pun- pects had been picked up
German Chancellor An- rope, mostly via a perilous the conflict began, and ished on the basis of law,” for questioning in the case.
gela Merkel said after talks boat crossing from Turkey authorities say the country the minister said. An Italian Justice Ministry
with Turkey’s prime minister, to Greece. has reached its capacity Italian media have honed undersecretary, Gennaro
Ahmet Davutoglu, that she Turkey’s coast guard said to absorb refugees. q in on the hypothesis that Migliore, had even sharper
elements in Egypt’s secu- words for Egypt’s authori-
rity force, which have been ties Monday as gruesome
criticized by human rights details emerged about the
champions, had arrested 28-year-old student’s brutal
the young man before his end.
death because he was in Regeni’s “massacre is a
contact with Egyptian la- very grave stain on a fun-
bor activists as part of his damentally authoritarian
research. regime,” Migliore said.
But Egypt’s interior minister The Cambridge University
retorted that his country’s doctorate candidate had
investigators are working been living in Cairo for
hard to solve the case and a few months, doing re-
insisted Regeni had never search into Egyptian labor
been arrested, let alone movements and other so-
picked up by his country’s cial issues.
security forces. Regeni vanished on the
Asked at a Cairo news con- evening of Jan. 25, as he
ference if Regeni had been traveled by subway after
detained, Interior Minister telling friends he was going
Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar re- to a birthday party. q

IRA faction says it attacked Dublin boxing event, killed man

S. POGATCHNIK ing of a senior IRA figure in Police have yet to arrest Detectives leading the hotel. Police say they have
Associated Press Dublin. anyone following Friday’s 100-officer murder inves- identified some attackers
DUBLIN (AP) — An Irish Re- That claim drew skepticism daylight assault on fans at- tigation say the attackers but suspect that some or all
publican Army faction in police and political cir- tending the weigh-in cere- were three men armed with have fled Ireland.
claimed responsibility Mon- cles, where speculation has monies for a Dublin boxing assault rifles and dressed The Continuity IRA state-
day for killing a reputed focused instead on well- event that attracted crimi- as police emergency re- ment, issued to the BBC in
member of a drug-dealing documented tensions be- nal figures from Ireland and sponse officers with bala- Belfast using an authen-
gang in a machine gun tween rival drug-trafficking Spain. clavas, body armor and ticating code word, said
attack on a Dublin boxing gangs. However, members Witnesses say Byrne, a re- helmets; a thin young man Byrne and his associates in
event — and threatened of IRA splinter groups run puted lieutenant in a traf- disguised as a woman and the hotel were targeted in
to kill more criminal rivals as their own criminal rackets, ficking gang overseen by a heavy-set older man, retaliation for the 2012 kill-
part of a long-running un- have done business with Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, both armed with hand- ing of Alan Ryan, Dublin
derworld feud. both sides in that deadly was singled out by gunmen guns; and a getaway driv- leader of a sister faction
The outlawed Continuity feud, and have issued pre- and riddled with bullets be- er. Most of the suspects called the Real IRA.
IRA said its members killed vious threats to retaliate for side the reception desk of were photographed either “Continuity IRA units have
33-year-old David Byrne any attacks on their sup- the Regency Hotel. Two during the attack or when been authorized to carry
in retaliation for a 2012 kill- porters. other men were wounded. fleeing on foot from the out further operations. q