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Sunday 09 October 2022
Books – Ahmed Adel:
The defendant’s defense in the case, known in the media as “the reckless driver of the Suez”, claimed that his client’s father had a malignant disease that could cost him his life.
In his petition before the court, the lawyer added that the cause of the incident was that the defendant, Ahmed Jamal Farghali, suffered from a psychological crisis after learning that his father needed urgent surgery.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office had ordered the referral of the accused, Ahmed Gamal Farghali, a 47-year-old university employee, to the competent criminal court to punish him for what he was accused of possessing with the intent of using drugs in cases other than those authorized by the law, and for driving a car under the influence of these drugs recklessly and carelessly on the Cairo-Suez road.
The Prosecutor had established evidence before the accused, Ahmed Jamal Farghali, from videos that were monitored on social media, which recorded the accused driving his car on the public road recklessly and carelessly, endangering people’s lives, and what was shown in the report of the chemical laboratory that the seizures found in the possession of the accused contained narcotic jewels, and what emerges from the report of the chemical laboratory at the Forensic Medicine Authority of the positive samples taken from the accused, and their proof of his abuse of drugs seized in his possession, in addition to what witnessed by witnesses.
The details of the incident date back to when the security services managed to arrest a person for reckless driving in one of the Cairo junctions, which led to the disruption of traffic, endangering his safety and that of others, particularly for the use of the drug Ice – an unknown drug) and legal measures were taken and the Public Prosecutor’s Office took over the investigation.
