The murderer of the priest of Alexandria, a former member of a terrorist group and involved in cases of assassinations
New details revealed that the accused of the murder of the priest of Alexandria, Archbishop Arsanios Oded, which took place last week, is called Nehru Abdel Moneim Tawfiq, who was born in Assiut Governorate and was a member of an extremist terrorist group in the 1990s. He was imprisoned for his participation in assassination cases and was issued a presidential pardon.
Amr Abdel-Moneim, a researcher in the affairs of terrorist groups, told Al-Arabiya.net that the accused was born in 1962 in the city of Dayrut in Assiut, and was arrested after participating in operations to monitor the movements of Major General Abdel Latif El-Shimy, who was assassinated in the 1990s, as he had previously been assigned to monitor passing tourist ships. in the Nile.
Nehru was released from prison with a presidential pardon during the reviews during the era of former President Hosni Mubarak, and he moved between Assiut and Cairo, and was previously detained in the Abbasid Psychiatric Hospital.
According to "Al-Masry Al-Youm" newspaper, and in a story published on its pages in 2007, Nehru was involved in violent incidents inside the prison.
The Egyptian Public Prosecution had ordered the detention of the accused for four days pending investigations into the case of the priest’s murder, and the implementation of the competent court’s decision to place him under medical observation in a public hospital specialized in the treatment of mental and neurological diseases
. Surveillance machines installed in his vicinity, and received the results of technical reports from the Forensic Medicine Authority and the Alexandria Poison Center regarding the anatomical characterization of the victim’s body, and the examination of samples from the accused indicating the extent of his use of any narcotic substances.
The investigation of the prosecution resulted in the presence of traces of blood in the scene of the incident, and the discovery of three surveillance machines installed at the top of three gates of the beach in which the incident occurred. Plastic and directed the victim and stabbed him in the neck intending to kill him, and tried to continue the assault on him with another stab, but those present arrested him and kept the knife that was in his possession, and handed him and the seized knife to the security men.
In the investigations, the accused admitted that he came to Alexandria in search of work after he moved from one governorate to another, and stayed overnight in the public roads until he found a knife in a garbage complex, so he kept it in his own defense, then claimed that on the day of the incident and after he saw the victim in front of him, he did not feel what he had committed. , until he was arrested.
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