He said he was mentally ill and was adjusting his clothes

Egypt: the "metro harasser" defends himself

The Egyptian security services arrested the accused of committing a scandalous act on the Cairo subway, who was known in the media as "the metro harasser", and the investigations of the Nuzha Prosecution revealed that the accused confessed that he was the person who appeared in the circulating video - while practicing the "scandalous act" - after the prosecution The public has uploaded a video documenting the incident.

The accused presented a medical certificate confirming that he suffers from a mental illness, and he defended himself, saying that he was adjusting his clothes and did not intend to commit an indecent act inside the subway.

According to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, the Egyptian Public Prosecution demanded the security services to complete their investigations into the report submitted by a girl number 2993 for the year 2021, and the Public Prosecution listened to the victim’s statements, and said that while she was on the metro station from the Ataba station, towards Adli Mansour station, she got off All the passengers from the metro car were at different stations, leaving only her and another person, and I was surprised that he was moving from his place and sitting on the opposite seat inside the subway car, and he started practicing immoral acts.

The victim added that she felt afraid of him and moved to another seat inside the metro, and she called her fiancé and informed him of the incident, and he asked her to videotape the accused to document the incident.

The Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced that it had received a report in the Fifth Metro Police Department from a woman working in a shopping mall in Al Shorouk accompanied by her fiancé, who works as an employee in a real estate marketing company, about the incident of "sexual harassment". The security services arrested the accused and turned out to be a "seller in a frozen meat shop in Cairo." .

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