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For the first time, a diagram of the crime scene has been included in the investigation records.Īmong the findings are a telephone call received by one of the witnesses urging him not to testify to the police. The diagram shows the surrounding streets, the cybercafe where the Saeed was sitting, and the building in front of which he was beaten by two police officers. The records include the testimonies of Saeed's mother, the internet cafe owner, the guard at the nearby building, his wife, employees at the Kum el-Dekka morgue, and medical examiners.

The investigation records are made up of some 300 papers, which formed the basis for the decision to refer both police officers, Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismael Suleiman, to the criminal court, where they will be tried for the use of violence and unjustified detention of the victim. Investigations started with the testimony of Mohamed Mohamed Thabet, an assistant at the Sidi Gaber police station, who registered a report of the incident based on a call from a police patrol reporting an injured person lying on the ground in the Cleopatra neighborhood. Thabet said he also received several phone calls from several other persons, including one from the two police officers who notified him of an injured man who had lost consciousness after swallowing an unidentified packet. Thabet said he immediately moved to the crime scene, where he discovered an unconscious man lying on the ground. He was unable to determine whether the person was injured or not, due to the large number of locals who had gathered around trying to revive him. “I put my hand on his chest, then felt his pulse to check whether he was still alive, but he was mute and inert. The people around were trying to make him drink salty water in order for him to throw up the object he had swallowed, but in vain. The ambulance arrived shortly after a phone call from the locals,” said Thabet. “People helped carry him on a trolley to the ambulance, but he fell off, and the paramedics told the people off for letting him fall. In the end, the ambulance left with the young man. I asked the police and citizens at the crime scene about the details of what had happened. They said they had watched Saeed and his friend, Mohamed Radwan Abdel Hamid, also nicknamed 'Mohamed Hashisha,' attempting to escape as the police officers came to apprehend them, and when the officers managed to catch them, Khaled swallowed a packet he had been holding in his hand before the officers could grab it from him-although Hashisha told him not to do so. According to the witnesses, this caused him to lose consciousness,” Thabet continued. The chief of the appeals prosecution services, Mohamed Omar, also listened to the account of Haytham Hassan Hanafi, 25, the internet cafe owner who witnessed the killing and claimed to have information about the incident. Hanafi delivered his story: “On 6 June, at 11:30 PM, I was at my cybercafe. The rest of the people there included my dad and many other clients. I was standing by the shop's entrance when I saw Saeed approaching, followed by his friend. He saluted us before he entered the cybercafe. PRIVILEGED FOR THREE CENTURIES, printed digitally and bound by Elias Printing, Egypt Email your thoughts to egy.Thirty seconds later, I was surprised when two men in plain clothes ran into the shop and one of them grabbed Saeed by the shoulder. HISTORY & SOCIETY IN A CAIRO SUBURB MAADI 1904-1962, Palm Press, Cairo. 20 Road 20 1950s villa designed by Salah Zeitoun a Taliesin Fellow greatly influenced by Frank LLoyd Wrightĭriving past Old Cairo on your way to Maadi until the early 1950s one glimpsed these old windmills allegedly built by Napoleon's army in 1789Īrticles posted on egy.com were published in the following books by Samir W Raafat:ĬAIRO THE GLORY YEARS, Harpocrates, Alexandria. Richter children cycling on Road 20 with Taher Bey Lozi's 'funhouse' seen at end of Road 82 where it intersects Road 21 German School (DEO) bus picking up students on Road 20 Maadi Sporting Club's legendary swimming instructor Ibrahim with Sabine and Stefan Richter circa 1960 Your pain his gain !!!įrom the book by Samir W Raafat 'Maadi 1906-1962 History & Society in a Cairo Suburb'įollowing photos courtesy of Stefan Richter in Germanyĭesert Patrol 'Haggana' located Road 79 behind Queen Dina's villa

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Several of my articles on Garden City were plagiarized word for word by novelist MEKKAWI SAID (winner of the Egyptian State price for literature!!!!) and re-published under his own name in a three-part series in El-Masry El-Youm daily in September 2015.Ĭheers to our 'talented' literature prize awardee. REMEMBERING MAADI (pictures) PART 3 egy.com suggests following articles VILLA PRINCESS FAWZIA.