Mahmoud Seddik-Cairo
The case of the murder of the Egyptian youth Mahmoud al-Banna has occupied the Egyptian public opinion, the incident which killed him as a martyr of martyrdom as a result of trying to prevent a young man from flirting with a girl and grabbing her phone from her hands. The need to impose the maximum penalty on the perpetrators, especially since the crime is classified by insistence and surveillance.
The case of Banna was not the first, but there are dozens of stories highlighting the magnanimity of young people who came to save the vulnerable and paid their lives for their heroic attitudes.
Martyr of Dignity
The most famous stories that resonated with the Egyptians were a thirty-year-old young man from the Fayoum Governorate, Sayed Taha, who left for Cairo in search of a living.He found him in the orchards area where he worked as a clothing ironing shop.While passing through the street returning from delivering clothes to customers, he was surprised by a Coptic girl. Thirty years old is being harassed by a forty man engaged in a discussion that touched parts of her body and cried crying.
The residents gathered only by the river Al-Muharrash. Taha rushed towards the young man and managed to rid the girl of his hands. The young man was stabbed in the chest by the left side, and he was cut with a right wound, killing him. They handed him over to the police station, while Taha was called a "martyr of dignity."
Father and child pay the price
Another incident was more painful on the village of Kafr Masoud of the city of Tanta, north of Cairo, where a child died as a poultice on his father, who was killed by his cousins after he discovered their crime in damaging agricultural crops by spraying them with chemical pesticides and filling the irrigation pipes of the ground water to the land to force the tenant to Leave it.
When Ibrahim Ramadan, 38, saw them and found out what they wanted to do at night, he was beaten with a hammer on his head until he died, hiding his body in a drainage room, and the perpetrators were uncovered after finding the body and confessing to their actions.
Under the wheels of the train
While the young Ahmed Farraj spent his life under the wheels of a train to rescue two children in Al-Ayat area south of Cairo, where he heard the screams of two girls while waiting for the passenger train, their feet nailed when crossing the train bar before approaching the cargo train rushing towards them.
Farraj, who has three daughters and a tires repair shop, sped away towards the two girls and threw them away from the train, but he did not have time to save himself.
From joking what was killed
One of the strangest incidents was the killing of two brothers of a 16-year-old male worshiper in Sharkia governorate who tried to separate the two brothers, Kamal and Abdul Rahman, whose joke evolved into a quarrel.
When Ebada, who works as a welder, intervenes to break up the brawl, one of them pulls a knife and stabs him, and passers-by take him to the central Minya al-Qamh hospital, but he is dead.
Half a million thugs
Fear dominates the Egyptians, especially when some pay the price of his life to defend a girl or to support an oppressed.
Momen, 34, a resident of Giza, says that the time of magnanimity is over and that he hears from his friends and relatives about thefts made under duress in broad daylight without any interference from passers-by for fear of the oppression of those thugs who do not hesitate to harm and may kill those who call him magnanimity to intervene.
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He attributed the spread of bullying phenomenon and dare to kill all those who try to stop them from what they do citizens, to the slow judicial procedures in taking deterrent judgments to prevent the recurrence of such incidents.
He said that "news of the killing of people by thugs or the result of disputes fill the newspapers and social networking sites, but rarely find news of the execution of someone who committed such heinous acts."
A report by the National Center for Social and Criminal Research (Hukoomi) revealed that there are more than 500 thousand thugs and dangerous registrars in the governorates of Egypt. Similar refuses to make reports for fear of their oppression.