He lived homeless in the streets of several Egyptian governorates, without knowing any details about him except that he spoke Arabic with difficulty
Cairo – Ashraf Abdel Hamid
Posted on: August 12, 2023: 02:59 AM GST Last updated: August 12, 2023: 03:14 AM GST
Over the past days, communication sites in Egypt have been buzzing with the story of a young Frenchman who lived homeless in the streets of several Egyptian governorates, without knowing any details about him except that he speaks Arabic with difficulty.
The story began with a post published by the “Missing Children” page, which is a Facebook page that specializes in publishing pictures of missing children and communicating with the concerned authorities until they are returned to their families.
The post said that the young man who lived among Egyptians in several governorates as a homeless person looking for shelter, no one knew his name, and they chose for him and knew him as “Hassan” and he lived in the Beni Suef governorate in southern Egypt as a homeless person, residing next to a school wall in the city, until a woman named “Teen” took care of him. Umm Radwan “works as a vegetable seller, and she used to give him 3 pounds per day as an expense for him, and after her death, the task of taking care of him was transferred to another woman called Umm Omar, and she provided him with a meal daily.
Francois
Cats friend
According to the post, the homeless young man was sharing his food with a group of cats who shared his bed with him on the street, and he remained in this state until he moved to Cairo.
In Cairo, “Hassan” lived in Masaken Sheraton, east of the capital, for a year, and there he became friends with a young man who works as a hairdresser.
Francois
The page adds that the residents of the area sympathized with the young man, and considered him, according to their expression, a “blessing” for the area, and they loved him and made sure that he had lost his memory and did not know anything about his family or his life.
Slowly, information began to unfold about the young man, and it turned out that he was a French national of Egyptian origin, called Francois, and his family traveled to France many years ago.
amnesia
François worked in more than one country other than France, such as Switzerland and Spain, but he loved Egypt, which he used to hear about from his family, and during his visit to Morocco 4 years ago, he called his father telling him of his desire to visit Egypt and travel there for his vacation, but his father asked him to make sure that he had A special medicine he gets to treat a mental illness that affects him, while the information revealed that if the young man does not use this medicine, his life changes and he turns into another person and even loses his memory.
Francois with the policemen
François did not respond to his father’s advice, and traveled to Port Said, the birthplace of his family, and stopped taking medicine until he forgot everything about himself and his family, and he disappeared and no trace of him was found, until his story reached the page and they published his pictures, after which his family reached him and his cousins narrated his full story, as I intervened The French Consulate reached out to the young man, met him, and made him speak on the phone with his mother in France.
For its part, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced that it had monitored the circulation of a post on one of the pages on the social networking site “Facebook” that included searching for a person “of Egyptian origin and holding the nationality of one of the countries” homeless “in the streets of Port Said.
mental illness
And she stated that it was found that the young man came to the country some time ago to visit his father’s family in Port Said, and he did not infer his location after that, adding that the security services were able to determine his whereabouts in the Nozha Police Department in Cairo, and discovered that he suffers from a “mental illness” that he has been treated for several years. Years.
And the Egyptian Ministry of Interior continued that coordination was made with the special page that published his condition and the young man’s family to come and receive him, and he was handed over to them and the necessary undertaking was taken to take good care of him, while the French embassy is currently taking measures to return the young man to the arms of his family in France.
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2023-08-11 22:59:00
