Full details of the killing of the "Lady of Peace", whose neighbors "stormed" her home amid Egyptian anger

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Yesterday, Sunday, the Egyptian prosecution announced the details of the killing of a woman in the Al-Salam area in Cairo, which caused a sensation during the past days and became described in the media as the "Lady of Peace" case. The prosecution stated that it had ordered the detention of 3 suspects in pretrial detention, warning against publishing information that would disturb security and public peace. , While a state of shock and astonishment prevailed on social networking sites in Egypt, following the accident.

The Egyptian prosecutor said, in a statement, that she was notified on March 11 by the Investigations Unit of the Peace Police Department 1 of the death of a woman, a housewife and not a doctor, and the presence of her body on the public road due to the attack of 3 defendants on a person inside her residence.

The statement added that the prosecution “moved to the scene of the accident to inspect it and discuss the body, and it became evident that the contents of the house, the safety of its door and all its windows and its balcony were scattered, as well as the body’s injuries. The Public Prosecution asked a neighbor of the victim and testified that she saw from the window of the victim’s residence, upon which the three accused bound a person with bonds. Inside the dwelling place, and the victim rushed at the time to the balcony and threw herself from it, so that the paradox of life would fall. "

The statement continued: “(the person) who was bound by the defendants with bonds witnessed, during the investigations, that they stormed the house after the victim opened the door for them, beat them with hands and wooden sticks and tied them with bonds, and that he was surprised during this that the victim rushed to the balcony of the dwelling and threw herself from it, denying None of the defendants assaulted it. "

On the 11th of this March, the "Public Prosecution" was notified by the "Investigations Unit of the Peace Police Department First" of the death of a woman - a housewife ...

Posted by Egyptian Public Prosecution on Sunday, March 14, 2021

The prosecution clarified that by interrogating the three defendants, "they confessed that they had committed the crimes of detaining the victim and the person who was in her companions unlawfully and physically torturing the latter, showing them force and brandishing violence and using them against the victims with the intention of intimidating them and intimidating them by inflicting harm on them."

The prosecution added, "This would have caused terror in themselves and endangered their lives and safety, and their entry into the victim's residence with the intention of committing these two crimes, and their possession of tools that were used to assault people. The defendants confirmed that the victim threw herself from the balcony of the house after terrorizing her and the person who was With her, they assaulted the latter and bound him with bonds. "

The Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the defendants to be held for four pre-trial days pending investigations, adding that "these are being completed."

The Egyptian prosecution affirmed the necessity of adhering to the data it issues in the facts in which it is conducting investigations, and not paying attention to any information about it from any other sources, whatever it may be, that would disturb public security and peace, and place its promoters under the penalty of law. "Only the woman has the right to assess what may be published or what is seen to be withheld from the circumstances of the facts that are being investigated, in order to ensure the safety of investigations and the proper conduct of justice."

Egyptian media reported that the police found the body of a 34-year-old woman near a residential building.

And still the discrepancy surrounds this issue that has occupied public opinion in the last hours.

According to one account, the defendants broke into the apartment of their neighbor and beat her under the pretext that it "violates the values ​​of the family and society because it received a stranger."

It has not been proven.

While another account states that there are problems between the woman and the owner of the building on the apartment.

In an interview with the journalist Amr Adeeb, the victim’s brother said, “She lived in an area that did not enter the natural gas and had to request a gas pipe, but the worker told her that her request would not be available until 11 pm.”

He ruled out that his sister had thrown herself from the top, especially since "her weight does not allow her to jump quickly," as he put it.

The brother also revealed that his sister was married and is a mother of three, adding that she works as an assistant in a private clinic.

She is not a doctor, unlike what was reported by news sites.

The brother appealed to the media to stop publishing fallacies and await the results of the investigations.

Security sources told the British "BBC" that the prosecution had heard the statements of the witness, who was present at the time of the accident.

The witness confirmed that he had no relationship with her except that he was in the process of carrying out a maintenance work when three people broke into the house and beat him and the victim, before he was able to escape.

The details circulating about the case are many and contradictory, but the most important point that stopped activists in the "Lady of Peace" case was "the seriousness of violating individual privacy."

Solidarity with the deceased woman turned into a wave of outrage across the communication sites.

Egyptian bloggers had interacted with the incident by launching the hashtag #Peace Doctor, or "Lady of Peace."

Many agreed to describe the incident as a "heinous crime" and demanded that the accused be dealt decisively.

Many activists believe that the recent incident "summarizes the reality of Egyptian women who are striving to protect themselves from all kinds of violence."

They warned that the story of Our Lady of Peace will not be the last unless the state reviews laws that "consecrate the inferior view of women within society," as they put it.

Although the circumstances of the incident are not yet clear, the comments made the Lady of Peace a symbol of what was described as "the suffering of women in the shadow of a patriarchal society."

The case renewed the discussion of the phenomenon of "street trials," in which people intend to monitor and control the behavior of other citizens on the grounds that they "contradict the Sharia and the customs of society."

Many consider what happened to Our Lady of Peace as "a product of a culture of permissibility of women and societal guardianship that permits interference in the privacy of the other."

The tag "# I am Aisha_Lonely" was recorded testimonies of women who broke their silence and spoke of "the authority of building guards who also set themselves up as guardians of the morals and behavior of any woman who lives alone, whether she is widowed, divorced or single."

On the other hand, tweeters see in the case a clear example that "the definition of morality is being used as a hanger in male societies to justify the assault on individual freedoms or to overlook the true essence of moral values."

Others criticized what they called "blatant duplicity within society, as its members seek to cover up the man, regardless of his offense, while the innocent woman is slandered and accusations fabricated against her."

What appeared to be a provocation to others, was "some Egyptian media focusing on the victim being found in her full clothes, instead of caring about being severely beaten or denouncing the behavior of her neighbors who violated her personal freedom and privacy."

Other tweeters also say that the Al-Salam neighborhood crime would not have happened had it not been for "the ease of state agencies to direct strange accusations to every person who violates society in order to protect family values ​​or public security."

On the other hand, others praised the handling of cases of violence against women by state institutions and called for waiting before the issuance of judgments and interfering in judicial decisions.

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