11:22 PM
Friday, January 20, 2023
Books – Muhammad Shaaban:
At one o’clock last Saturday, thick smoke formed a black cloud in the village of Bani Salama, the center of Manshaat al-Qanater, north of Giza Governorate. The sound of the fire engine’s siren caught the attention of the people, who followed its route to its destination at the Al-Hussein Agricultural Society.
The event is great and the casualty is great. A huge fire inside the house of individuals, not only left it empty on its thrones, but also recorded a tragic scene that will remain stuck in everyone’s minds. With the end of the extinguishing process and the start of the cooling phase, the policemen discovered 3 bodies in a charred state, and a motorcycle that had been caught in flames a few meters away.
At first glance, the incident seemed to be a fatal accident, especially since the association’s officials used to light a fire to keep warm in the bitter cold, but the influx of criminal investigation men in the October sector indicated suspicions of a criminal suspicion.
A senior security leadership whose presence was like magic. Attendance was followed by remarkable activity, as everyone rushes to collect information, asking eyewitnesses about the moments immediately preceding or following the fire; Hoping to find an answer to looming questions, the most important of which is “What happened that night”?
A few meters away from the rubble of the fire, Brigadier General Muhammad Amin, the head of the sector’s investigations, was keen to examine the place thoroughly, without being content with seeing his officers. There is a note that was the beginning of deciphering the case, with the discovery of the disappearance of a four-wheel drive car owned by the first victim, Engineer Hassan Ibrahim Al-Barqi, 34 years old, to preclude the possibility of a fire, “fate and destiny”.
A well-articulated research plan prepared by Major General Muhammad Al-Sharqawi, Director of the Giza Investigations, focused on examining the relationships of the three victims – especially the 30-year-olds – and monitoring surveillance cameras with possible routes for the perpetrators to escape, in coordination with the Technical Assistance Department in the Directorate, led by Major Muhammad Idris.
Shuttle search trips made by the Qanater facility investigation officers led by Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Al-Gohary; To gather information and form a complete picture of the relationships and dealings of the victims, it had a great impact in solving the mystery.
48 hours before the crime, the detectives obtained a witness that monitored a heated verbal altercation between the agricultural engineer and a former worker who was working for him, which ended with his threat to him, “I will not leave my right… my eyes will not go to waste.”
Fingers pointed that this person was the prime suspect. The investigations, which were supervised by Colonel Tamer Saleh, inspector of the North October Division, concluded that the dead man had previously beaten him, causing him blindness, to make the picture clearer and that revenge is the motive for committing the crime.
In conjunction with the work of the detectives with the men of the General Traffic Department to track down the stolen car, a report was received to the Police Rescue that a car – bearing the same numbers and specifications – had overturned on the desert road within the Alexandria governorate, injuring its driver and his escort, and taking them to the hospital.
An errand from the department’s investigations unit headed for the hospital, in coordination with the Public Security Sector and the Alexandria Security Directorate, and kept the second injured person in custody, while the first was undergoing treatment and his condition was unstable, with tight guards assigned until he recovered.
Returning to the office of Manshaat Al-Qanater police station, a state of relief prevailed throughout, everyone caught their breath after brainstorming sessions that were crowned with success and deciphered the talismans of Muhandis, his nephew Ghazi Alaa Ibrahim, 19 years old, and his friend Saleh Hassan Al-Suwairi, 28 years old.
With a calm voice and enviable confidence, the second accused stood before Major General Ahmed Al-Wateidi, Director of Criminal Investigations, telling the secrets of the crime of revenge and fire, which has become the talk of the hour in the simple center.
The mastermind agreed with his partner to get rid of the engineer. They took turns hitting him and his companions, then set the house on fire to make it look like a fire and to remove criminal suspicions from them.
As soon as the two defendants committed their crime, they got into the victim’s car, heading to the hometown of the main suspect in Wadi al-Natrun, to get rid of the car by selling and obliterating the last features of the crime, but the driver’s steering wheel misfired and the car overturned on the road wrote a different scenario that ended in their downfall.
