The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced a defendant to life imprisonment and 14 others to 15 years in prison, and a 7-year prison sentence, and another acquittal in a case known to the media as “the events of the second US embassy”.
According to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, the prosecution demanded during its pleading to apply the articles of the law contained in the indictment and impose the maximum penalty on the accused.
The prosecution based its argument on the statements of witnesses who confirmed that the defendants carried out a criminal act represented in killing, assault and causing injuries, as well as the investigations that confirmed the defendants ’sit-in at Tahrir Square, and that their affiliates with the terrorist“ Brotherhood ”terrorist group tried to cause chaos inside the country after the June 30 revolution. Following the dismissal of the former president to try to portray the state’s failure to public opinion in running the country, while defending the defendants during his pleading demanded their innocence of the accusations against them and submitted the lack of seriousness of the investigations.
The Public Prosecution referred the defendants to the Criminal Court because, on July 22, 2013, in the Department of the Kasr El Nile Department in Cairo Governorate, they organized a gathering of more than 5 people that would put public peace at risk, with the aim of committing assault crimes against people and public and private property and affecting the men of the public authority In carrying out their actions with force and violence.
The prosecution had charged the accused with accusations of gathering and endangering the public peace, and committing premeditated murders of the victim, Amr Eid Abdel Nabi, and injuring others, in addition to intentionally destroying and vandalizing buildings designated for public benefit and obstructing laws, in addition to possessing weapons, displaying strength and terrorizing citizens.