After the case sparked widespread discontent in Egypt, the Egyptian Interior Ministry revealed on Monday evening, Circumstances of theft of an antiquities museum at Sohag University in the south of the country.
It began when the Sohag Second Police Department received a report from Sohag University claiming that its employees had discovered the theft of some artifacts from inside the University’s Faculty of Archeology Museum.
4 students and a parent
The ministry announced that a research group had been formed and its efforts led to the discovery that 4 people were behind the crime, i.e. two students, a student from the same university and the father of one of them, adding that after legalized the procedures, were seized with 59 artifacts seized from the museum.
Confronting the defendants, they confessed to having committed the incident, and one of them decided that he had agreed with another student to steal the contents of the museum to get rich quick, and they prepared an “ironing machine” and went to the university, and one of them blocked the camera view until the other managed to open the door of the museum. Plastic bags, according to the statement from the Interior.
Sohag University
Student involved in a crime
He also explained that one of the students called a colleague and asked her to get in her car to carry the stolen items and hide them with the father of one of them for their sale.
The incident sparked widespread outrage in Egypt, as the university issued a statement about it.
Immediate investigation
Mostafa Abdel-Khaleq, president of the University of Sohag, decided to stop the security personnel in charge of surveillance of the building and subject them to immediate investigations, as well as refer the interim dean of the Faculty of Archeology for investigation before a Professor of the Faculty of Law, the Director General of the General Administration of University Security, and Keeper of the Warehouse for investigation, after his return from Cairo For his participation in the meeting of the Supreme Council of Universities.
The university president explained that it was decided to form a specialized committee to take a full inventory of the store’s properties, adding that he also tasked the university’s legal affairs with opening in-depth investigations with college security personnel and all. employees and employees.
