Thieves arrested for stealing journalist's phone during live broadcast

The Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed the circumstances of the circulation of a video clip that included 3 "unidentified" people riding a motorcycle with "unknown plate numbers" hijacking a mobile phone from a person in the New Mehwar area of ​​the Marg Police Department, while he was broadcasting a live video clip using the mobile phone, and they fled.

The ministry added in a statement, that by examining the victim, it was possible to find the victim and by questioning him, he supported the above, and by intensifying investigations and tracing the path of the perpetrators, and through the use of modern technologies, it was possible to identify the perpetrators of the incident, who are 3 people with criminal information.

The statement indicated that after codifying the procedures, the defendants were arrested, and by confronting them, they confessed to having committed the incident in a "kidnapping" manner. They were instructed to seize the seized mobile phone, and by summoning the victim, he identified the seized items and accused them of theft.

The pioneers of social networking sites in Egypt circulated a video clip, today, of the incident of the theft of the phone of the correspondent of the Egyptian newspaper, “The Seventh Day”, during a live broadcast, and the video of the thief spread and was watched by millions of followers in Egypt through the social media platforms in a short time.

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