Although the trial in the case of the beheading of the young woman, Naira Ashraf, which rocked Egypt last week, is still continuing after it began last Sunday (June 26), a video of what was said to be the sentencing of Muhammad Adel, the killer of the twenty-year-old studentlit a whirlwind.
The alleged clip spread like wildfire on the Egyptian communication sites.
“Death by hanging”
Its publishers claimed that the video showed a judge reciting a death sentence by hanging to “Mohamed Wajih Ali Ahmed”, the murderer of his colleague at Mansoura University, and his photo was added to the video.
Although several elements raised doubts about the authenticity of the clip – especially since the name of the accused in the Naira case, which is Mohamed Adel It differs from the name mentioned in the video, and there is no final ruling yet in this case – the clip has received tens of thousands of views and shares on several pages on social media.
Husband burned his wife
It turns out later that it is old and dates back to 2019, but it also relates to the crime of a husband’s murder of his wife, and setting fire to her body.
It is noteworthy that the first session of the trial of the young man who admitted killing the student in front of her university in Mansoura, Nile Delta, north of Cairo, after she refused to be associated with him, began last Sunday.
Last Wednesday (June 22), the Egyptian Public Prosecution referred the accused to the Criminal Court in Dakahlia Governorate, accusing him of “premeditated murder” of the victim, after he confessed to committing the crime.
Stabbed her and cut her neck
Investigations showed that Adel watched and monitored Naira, earlier, to know when she was going to the university, according to dozens of eyewitnesses. Then he stabbed her with a knife in the back, and stabbed her several times, then came back and killed her, intending to take her life, in the middle of the street and in front of pedestrians.
While that crime shocked the Egyptian street with its atrocity, and prompted millions of Egyptians to watch the proceedings of the court session, which the media was allowed to film in a rare case in such cases in Egypt.
It is noteworthy that it is expected, according to what the lawyer of the accused, told AFP, that the trial sessions will continue on Tuesday.