3:23 pm
Sunday 01 January 2023
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Photography – Nader Nabil:
Today, Sunday, the Giza Criminal Court, presided over by Councilor Mohamed Awadallah, sentenced to death by hanging, after hearing the opinion of the Grand Mufti, the defendant in the case known in the media as the “European Campaign Massacre” and confiscated the weapon seized.
The prosecutor’s office earlier committed a criminal trial to the accused of killing five people, namely: a farmer, his two daughters and two granddaughters, on a farm in the European countryside village of Sheikh Zayed City. For accusing him of intentionally killing the farmer, and this crime has been associated with other crimes, namely the intentional killing of his two daughters and two granddaughters, and attempting to indecently assault one of his two daughters, the victim.
In his argument before the court in the previous session, the prosecutor called for the execution of the defendant and recounted all the details of the crime, commenting: “The crime shakes the throne of heaven and earth.”
The defendant’s defense asked the judge to use leniency with the defendant because he was in a state of self-defense, underlining that he requests the application of article 17 relating to extenuating circumstances to his client.
Mohamed Salah, a lawyer claiming civil rights for victims of the “massacre in European countryside,” said the court had received the medical report released by the psychiatric and psychiatric hospital.
The attorney added, in press releases, that the defendant’s psychiatric report confirmed his mental and psychological health during the commission of the incident, noting that the report stated, “The defendant is psychologically and mentally healthy.”
The prosecutor established evidence for the defendant from his confession in the investigation, and simulated images of how the crime was committed, and instructed him about the narcotic substance tape he used to carry out his plan of indecent assault, as well as the tools he used to insert the drug into the victim’s drink, and what resulted from it. The report of the chemical laboratory of the Legal Medicine Authority which examines the narcotic substance, the report of the anatomical description of the bodies of the five victims, as well as the findings of the report of the General Department of Criminal Investigations by examining all traces seized at the scene of the accident, and making the necessary reconciliations, in addition to the statements of nine witnesses in the investigation.
