Personal belongings of slain Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni, including his passport, are displayed.

Egypt’s public prosecution has said it has agreed to allow Italian and German experts to retrieve and examine CCTV footage related to the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni.

They will try to view footage from a metro station in Cairo’s Dokki district, where Regeni is believed to have been last seen alive.

Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano told the Italian parliament last week that Italy “will not rest until it uncovers the truth behind the murder Regeni”.

Investigators have already made leads from footage found showing Regeni during his last days. An Egyptian TV channel on Monday showed a video in which is seen speaking to the president of the Egyptian street sellers’ trade union, Mohamed Abdallah. The video was filmed using a Cairo police micro-camera hidden in one of Abdallah’s shirt buttons, sources said.

Last September, Egyptian and Italian prosecutors confirmed that Egyptian police investigated Regeni in the days leading up to his abduction, torture and murder but dropped the probe after assessing he had posed no genuine threat.

Despite that, Egyptian authorities have continuously denied that its security forces were involved in the Regeni’s abduction and murder.

Regeni, who was an Italian graduate student researcher focusing on the work of unions in Egyot, was kidnapped and tortured last year, with an Italian autopsy reporting that his body was covered with cuts and his bones were broken, indicating he was hit with “fists, batons and hammers”. A letter “X” was also carved on his forehead and hand.

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