Cairo, November 15, 2021
He did not anticipate that the theft of his car was the first episode in a series of vicious terrorist attacks against him.
But it was!!
- The first attack: the evening of September 29, 2019
The Nissan X-Trail was stolen.
At about six in the evening, from Algeria Square, below the headquarters of the Arab Network, by loading it to a rescue winch on which the Al-Batal Rescue Company recorded it, many cameras spotted it.
It was reported, the cars theft police unit moved actively, and then, after a few days, the search was suspended completely.
The second attack on Thursday evening 10 October 2019
- A thug carrying a pistol attacks Gamal Eid in Al Nasr Street in Maadi. He snatches the mobile, hits him with the heel of a pistol and breaks his ribs, shouting, “Leave this bag, Gamal.” Gamal Eid shouts for people’s help. The thug fires some bullets in the air to disperse people aiming to help Gamal. Another person was with the thug, on motorcycle, they left together. A person appears saying that he is a police officer carrying a radio and a pistol, along with three others and a car. One of them rides the motorcycle and takes Gamal Eid to the station, but after he moves away, he asks him to come down and he will follow him.
- Gamal Eid goes to the department, and finds that all the detective officers in the department, and the detective officer in the department “Walid Selim” takes him back to the scene of the incident, so he listens to the people and confirms the incident. He asks to attend Eid for the department tomorrow, Friday, to take the necessary measures.
- Friday, October 11th, Gamal Eid goes to the department, and the chief of detectives “Ahmed Farag” makes a report about steeling the mobile phone and tells Gamal Eid that the prosecution will complete the investigations.
- Saturday, October 19, the Basateen Prosecution kept the incident without investigation, summons, or any other procedures.
- November 12, 2019, The Arabic Network issues a statement denouncing the prosecution’s reservation of the report in a way that raises doubts and suspicions
– November 13, a phone call from the Public Prosecutor of Al-Basateen “Walid Al-Fateh” one day after the statement was published, asking Gamal Eid to attend to open an investigation, and indeed an investigation has been opened, amid continuous assurances from the Public Prosecutor to Gamal Eid that the law will be implemented. Multiple phone calls from the office The Attorney General and al Basateen department warden to follow up the investigation! Which means that the Public Prosecutor knows, the police, and state security officers at the prosecution headquarters.
– The prosecutor is heading to the location of the incident, after a whole month passed after the incident, yet he finds many witnesses who remember the incident well and testify. He even finds that the cameras of one of the car dealership are still keeping a recording of the incident.
– The Public Prosecution office neglects Gamal Eid’s requests to ask the Basateen investigation officers for falsifying a report and lying in the investigations.
– This incident involved “six people carrying firearms”, 2 pistols, a car, a motorcycle, and a radio. As a result, Gamal Eid was broken, and the formal investigations were halted.
The third assault October 31, 2019
At dawn on October 31, Gamal Eid woke up to find that the car he had borrowed from his colleague in the Arab Network, which was standing next to the house, had been completely smashed, and witnesses said that three people carrying pistols and radios got out of the car at dawn and completely smashed the car, and set off! ! The police station falsifies the report of the incident again, and records it as a infraction!!! The prosecution reserves the case.
Fourth assault December 29, 2019
About 10 people, including a state security officer who is well known for Gamal Eid, attack Gamal Eid in the morning next to his house while trying to get a taxi to go to the headquarters of the Arab Network.
They beat him, pour wall paint on him, photograph him, and telling him: “This to deter”, When some passers-by step in to defend him, they point pistols at them, saying: “Go away, go away.”
– After an argument with members of the Maadi Public Prosecution, the Public Prosecutor “Walid Al-Fateh” and the Chief Prosecutor “Mustafa Al-Matnawi”, the prosecution begins the investigation, but after promising to move to inspect the incident, it reneges on the implementation of its promise, time passes, then it assigns the inspection to the officers of Al Basateen police station!! Although they are accomplices and it was better to investigate them.
Evasion of legal accountability
Two years after the incidents of criminal attacks, which are considered as terrorist crimes, and as a result of unfair formal and incomplete investigations, the criminals are still free. This takes place because of the Public Prosecution and the Attorney General himself wasting law, in a way that facilitated impunity for a terrorist crime. At the same time, the same Public Prosecutor decides to imprison hundreds, if not thousands, of terrorism-related charges without evidence or a crime committed by these innocents, but only based on an investigation memorandum written by a State Security officer. It was one of them, a state security officer, who led the terrorist incident against Gamal Eid.
The Arabic Network feels very sorry when it announces that the Public Prosecution, during the era of the current Attorney General, “Hamada El-Sawy”, has become part of the justice crisis in Egypt. Its performance is disappointing and frustrating to those seeking the rule of law and justice. Where many opponents and critics are deprived of serious investigations and justice when they are victims of violations and attacks, innocent people are even imprisoned on fabricated charges, and many of them exceed the maximum limit of pretrial detention period. While the official and private media that are under the control of the security services come out and claim that the country is governed by the rule of law!
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