Former Egyptian minister: My son "heard strange voices" that ordered him to kill his co-workers
A former Egyptian minister said that her son, accused of killing two people in the United States, was suffering from a "mental illness" when he committed the incident, and that "strange voices he was hearing ordered him to kill."
The statements of the former Egyptian Minister of Immigration, Nabila Makram, came to the “Cairo Talk” program, with the journalist Khairy Ramadan, on the Egyptian “Cairo and the People” channel, yesterday.
It is the first televised statement by the former official since her son was arrested and accused of killing two of his co-workers in the US state of California
Makram said that "voices ordered him" to kill his two co-workers last April.
Makram indicated that her son had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizophrenia, and stated that one of his symptoms was "hearing those voices."
She went on to say that her son, at the time his two colleagues were killed, had "decided to stop taking psychiatric medications, and there was a major setback...and he was not understanding or aware, he was losing his will."
Nabila Makram had held her position since September 2015, before she was replaced in a cabinet reshuffle last August.
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