‘All the Evil in the World’ Doc, About Murder of Leftist Italian Student in Egypt, Sparks Political Storm After Being Denied Government Funding

In 2016, Giulio Regeni was tortured to death in Cairo, allegedly by Egypt’s secret police

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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An investigative documentary titled “All the Evil in the World” — about the murder of leftist Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni, who in 2016 was tortured to death in Cairo, allegedly by Egypt’s secret police — is sparking outrage in Italy over the fact that it has been denied government funding by a commission appointed by the country’s right-wing government.

The doc, directed by Simone Manetti and produced by Italy’s Ganesh productions and Domenico Procacci‘s Fandango, reconstructs the still ongoing quest for judicial truth about the kidnapping, torture and murder of Regeni. Regeni was in Cairo to do research for his doctorate at Cambridge on Egypt’s independent labor unions that operate outside the Egyptian state-controlled trade union federation. His brutalized body was found in a gutter on the side of the Cairo-Alexandria highway on Feb. 3, 2016.

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