The four men are accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing Regeni in January-February 2016
The witness said they heard one of the suspects, Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdel Sharif, make the admission in a restaurant in Nairobi in September 2017.
The witness told the court that he heard Sharif say, “‘In our country, we had the case of an Italian academic who we thought was CIA and also Mossad.
“‘He was a problem because he was popular among ordinary people.
“‘We finally caught him. We cut him up, we destroyed him. I hit him.’”
Sharif is on trial along with National Security General Tariq Sabir and two others, who are not attending after Egypt refused to notify them of the proceedings.
Cambridge University researcher Regeni, 28, was allegedly tortured to death between January 25 and February 3, 2016, after the Egyptian security officers decided he was a spy.
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