CAIRO -

A video clip showing the assault of a resident of a residential complex in the Maadi suburb of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on an employee of the complex's security, sparked a wave of anger on social media.

Following the widespread spread of the video clip, amid calls for the arrest of the assailant, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced his arrest, and the Public Prosecution later announced his detention for 4 days pending investigation and submission to an urgent trial.

The video clip showed the assailant repeatedly slapping the security employee, who was satisfied with receiving successive slaps, the same position taken by the witnesses to the incident, none of whom moved a finger and watched.

Assault on a security person in a residential compound in Maadi!

I am really surprised by the people who are standing watching the security personnel being beaten, and unfortunately it has become normal for us. Now we just watch ✋ pic.twitter.com/8dJbTyK3CJ

— Coach Shreif Aouf 🦅 (@coachshreifaouf) April 29, 2022

If social media are all defects and this is the only advantage to it, then you will win and more things, make sure that it has strength and influence pic.twitter.com/tMZ0Fbnik3

— Hamed (@mid0hamed) April 29, 2022

Incident details

The young man, who works as a security officer in a private company, said that the reason behind the incident was to perform his work, as he stopped a car while entering the residential complex and was not allowed to enter it because the car’s passengers did not specify their destination, or mentioned the name of the person for whom they came.

He explained - in statements to Al-Watan newspaper - that he was surprised by the presence of the assailant and assaulted him by beating, insulting and humiliating him. He also insulted his responsible manager, and demanded that he be expelled from the compound.

The security officer confirmed that he will proceed with his complaint to the end, calling on the "Egyptian justice" to help him obtain his right, especially since he was attacked because he is securing and protecting the person who attacked him.

Public and media outrage

The circulating video caused a state of great anger that swept social networking sites in Egypt, and many denounced the aggressor's weakness of the simple young man, and his continued insult and humiliation in this way, hiding behind his position or social standing.

The anger of the pioneers of the communication sites increased after the spread of another video clip of the assailant, while he was carrying a prayer rug after Friday prayers, in which he accused the security personnel of insulting him, then clashed with his neighbors who objected to the incident.

Egyptian media professionals interacted with the incident, calling for the maximum punishment for the aggressor - they described him as a thug and a psychopath - whatever his position, stressing that he did not insult the poor security member, but rather insulted the entire Egyptian people.

The one who hit a security person in Maadi is also claiming that the valley insulted the religion, meaning thugs and liars pic.twitter.com/l0UtCiV4I9

— Sabri Abu Mekka (@sapriagoor333) April 30, 2022

The crime of hitting a security person in Maadi Compound is a natural result and a natural development of the bloated murmur that Egyptians live with each other.

I mean, the least usual reaction from anyone who refuses to give up his license or that it even comes to the gate according to the instructions of the place, and instead of respecting it, he does not come down and suffocate and engage in dialogue

— 30//ar (@30m3esam) April 29, 2022

It is not enough to arrest him. He will surely come out by forcing the security personnel to reconcile.. Why did they not say who he is?

What is his job that makes him such a savage?!

https://t.co/UT04Xtbx2Z

— Selim Azzouz (@selimazouz1) April 30, 2022

Imprisonment and a speedy trial

After the video clip of the attack spread, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced the arrest of the accused of assaulting the security employee for stopping a taxi containing 4 people who asked to enter the residential complex on their way to repair the assailant’s car, violating the instructions of the complex’s security department regarding the ban on entry of microbuses.

The Egyptian Public Prosecution issued a statement yesterday, Saturday, announcing the imprisonment of the aggressor and his being imprisoned for an urgent trial.

According to the statement, the Public Prosecutor ordered the detention of the accused for 4 days pending investigation with regard to what is attributed to him of displaying force, threatening violence and using it against a security person in a residential complex in Mokattam, assaulting him by beating and insulting him, causing him injuries, and bringing him imprisoned to an urgent criminal trial.

#The Ministry of Interior, on the 29th of this month, reported to the Mokattam Police Department from an administrative security employee in one of the residential complexes that he was damaged by (a person - residing in the same residential complex where he works) because he # assaulted him with insults, slander, beatings with the hands and causing his injury “sporadic bruises on the body” pic.twitter. com/eYZIaffodp

— Ministry of the Interior (@moiegy) April 30, 2022