News of family crimes has dominated Egyptians since the beginning of August. While a young man killed his wife and two of his neighbors, another emptied his firearm into his daughter and his ex-wife’s siblings. A third killed his brother because of disputes between their wives, a fourth killed his father, and a fifth buried his mother in his apartment for two years after he ended her life.
Shoush crime
In Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt, the residents of the Masaken Al-Shoush area mourned the bodies of the victims of the tragic incident that resulted in the death of a woman and two young men.
The incident dates back to last Saturday morning, when the Al-Shoush residences in the Sohag district witnessed a murder that resulted in the death of 3 people, including a woman who is the wife of the accused and two young men, after the accused, according to initial investigations, attacked them with a bladed weapon.
According to the prosecution's investigations, the accused began the incident of assault inside the marital home, where he attacked his wife using a knife, causing her to fall dead inside the home, before the accused went out into the street carrying the knife, where he attacked two young men, one aged 22 and the other 23, who fell due to their injuries.
Initial investigations indicate that an honor-related motive was behind the accused's crime, while security services in the Sohag Security Directorate are intensifying their efforts to uncover all the circumstances, details, and motives behind the incident.
Initial investigations indicated that an honor-related motive was behind the accused's commission of the crime, while the security services in the Sohag Security Directorate are intensifying their efforts to uncover all the circumstances, conditions, and motives of the incident.
The accused made detailed confessions before the investigating authorities, during which he explained that the incident began with a message he received from an unknown number, which included pictures of his wife, and the sender claimed that she was having a relationship with others.
He added that he had returned from Libya one day before the incident, where he had been working to earn a living and provide for his family, as he had gotten married about two years ago.
The accused said that he confronted his wife immediately upon his return with the information he had received, and lured her into talking until she confessed to him that she had a relationship with two people. After that, he went to the adjacent workshop and lured the two young men to it, and assaulted them until they died, before returning home and ending his wife’s life. He pointed out in his statements that he also mutilated the body of one of the two victims in revenge against him.
structural engineer
In Cairo, an engineer killed his daughter, two of his ex-wife's brothers, and one of her relatives due to family disputes related to child support.
Iyad M., who works in one of the Gulf countries, admitted to the investigating authorities that there were severe financial and family disputes between him and his ex-wife and her family, which prompted him to prepare in advance to get rid of them. He prepared a firearm with two magazines and 120 bullets, a bladed weapon, and a niqab to hide his features after the crime.
The accused stated that he contacted his injured son, Abed, claiming his desire to hold a decisive reconciliation session to end all disputes in the presence of his ex-wife, her two brothers, and her relative, the victim Mohamed Sayed Khalil. As soon as the parties coordinated to meet inside the latter’s apartment, the accused went to the property with the tools and the firearm in his possession.
Regarding the moment of execution, the accused admitted to surprising those present as soon as he entered the apartment; he took out the weapon and began firing shots intensively from close range, confirming that he continued to press the trigger until all 16 bullets from the first magazine were exhausted.
The shooting resulted in his son Abed being shot in the right foot, before the screams of those present rose and the residents of the area intervened, managing to surround him, control him and restrain him inside the property before he tried to escape.
Brothers' fight
In the Menoufia Governorate in the Nile Delta of Egypt, a young man killed his brother. The village of Samalij, affiliated with the Tala district, witnessed a tragic incident following a fight between the two brothers over previous disputes, which ended with the death of Mohamed Shams Ghanem after he was stabbed.
The video circulating online shows women screaming and calling for help, amidst a state of confusion inside the venue, while voices rise in an attempt to stop the fight and end the situation, amidst the tension that accompanied the incident.
Social media users circulated a video clip showing the killing of Mohammed Shams Ghanem, in which a young man named Ibrahim appeared stabbing his brother before fleeing on a motorcycle.
The video circulating shows screams and cries for help from women, coinciding with a state of confusion inside the place, while voices rise in an attempt to stop the fight and end the situation, amidst a state of tension that accompanied the incident.
Ibrahim, who is accused of killing his brother, had previously appeared in a live broadcast on his personal Facebook page to talk about the incident and give his version of events.
During the broadcast, the accused said that he did not intend to kill his brother, claiming that the victim had started assaulting him and tried to kill him, indicating that there were witnesses to what he said. He also spoke about previous disputes and accumulated problems between them.
The mother disappeared
Back in Cairo, security services revealed that a young man had killed his mother and buried her under the floor of her bedroom for two years.
Two years ago, a 75-year-old retired woman disappeared, and her disappearance became a mystery.
The salesman raised suspicions about his aunt's absence, and questions began to be directed towards her unemployed son, who lived with her in the apartment.
The son said that his mother went to one of his relatives, as if she had left the house of her own free will, but the security services revealed that his story was false, especially since the investigations revealed that the son had a history of assaulting his mother by beating her more than once, so suspicions began to turn towards him, before he confessed that about two years ago he had entered into a verbal altercation with his mother, which escalated into him assaulting her by beating her, until she passed away.
According to the killer's confession, the son carried his mother's body to her bedroom, buried her inside the apartment, and then tried to hide all traces of the crime.
16 stab wounds
In the Matareya district of Cairo, a lawyer stabbed his father 16 times inside their apartment, causing the father to fall, covered in blood, before passing away.
Security investigations revealed that the incident began with family disputes between the father and his son, which quickly escalated into a fight that ended with the accused assaulting his father with a bladed weapon, inflicting several fatal stab wounds while he was sleeping.
The security services in the Cairo Security Directorate received a report of an elderly man being found dead inside his apartment in the Matareya police station district. Upon arrival and examination, it was found that there were signs of assault on the victim, and the prosecution ordered the accused to be detained for 4 days pending investigations.
Fifth Settlement
The Fifth Settlement area, east of the Egyptian capital Cairo, witnessed a horrific crime in which an entire family was killed, and it turned out that the perpetrator was one of the family's friends.
Last week, Egyptian security forces found an entire familybrutally murdered days after they were reported missing. The bodies of the mother and her two daughters were found inside a parked and covered car near the family's home. The father's body was later found in a different location, before the Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of a friend of the family and revealed its version of events regarding the crime and its motives.
The incident began with a report from the brother of the head of the family to the Fifth Settlement police station, stating that his brother, the owner of a printing press, his wife, and their two daughters were missing and that all contact with them had been lost and they were not answering any of their phones. During the investigation, security forces found the wife's car parked and covered in a street in the Al-Narges neighborhood, with traces of blood and gunshots inside. The bodies of the mother and her two daughters, aged between 14 and 16, were then discovered.
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior explained that the accused, a friend of the victim, is retired and resides in the Dokki district of Giza Governorate.
In its official account, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior explained that the accused, a friend of the victim, a retiree residing in the Dokki district of Giza Governorate, knew that the head of the family kept sums of money and gold bars in his home, and therefore decided to get rid of him and steal from him because he was going through financial hardship.
Last July witnessed a crime that sparked widespread controversy, when human rights lawyer Sally El-Gabbas killed her mother in the Montazah area of Alexandria Governorate in northern Egypt, following a family dispute, and then dismembered her body in an attempt to conceal the crime.
The incident came to light after neighbors noticed a strange smell emanating from the apartment, before investigations led to the discovery of the crime and the arrest of the accused. The prosecution decided to place her in Al-Maamoura Psychiatric Hospital to assess her psychological state and the extent of her criminal responsibility.
