A controversial video of youths assaulting a person with special needs at a barber shop in Sharkia, Egypt, sparked controversy on social media users.

The Egyptian security services were able to arrest two of the suspects in the incident, while searching for the others involved, after the victim's family filed a report against the perpetrators, according to the site "Arab Net".

The preliminary investigation reported the suspects' claim that the attack on the victim came after he had said abusive language against one of them.

After the spread of the video of the attack, social networking sites demanded that all suspects should be arrested and brought to justice for their actions.