A small village in Menoufia Governorate, north of Cairo, witnessed the murder of a 19-year-old girl by a young man who refused to associate with him.
In the details mentioned by local Egyptian newspapers, the crime took place in the village of Toukh Tanbasha, which is affiliated to the Barkat Al-Sabaa center in Menoufia Governorate, and Amani Abdel Karim Al-Jazzar was killed, at the hands of a young man named Ahmed Fathi Amira (29 years), from the same village, after she refused to be associated with him.
The Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk quoted a number of villagers as saying that the girl is a third-year student at the Faculty of Physical Education at Menoufia University, and her father works as a teacher, and that the accused holds a diploma, and lives on Al-Qatila Street. As well as the fact that the accused did not complete his education.
Concerning the details of the crime, eyewitnesses stated that the accused fired a shotgun at the girl from behind in front of her house, as a result of which she was killed instantly, as the people tried to rescue her, but she breathed her last inside the Barakat Al-Sabaa Hospital. Security forces later found his body.
And the Egyptian Ministry of Interior announced today, Sunday, "The body of the killer of one of the girls was found in the Barakat El-Sabaa police station in Menoufia, where it was found that he killed himself with the same weapon used, on the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road in the Quesna Police Station Department."
The accused of killing the Menoufia girl gets rid of his life with the same weapon https://t.co/PC0dgClwMW
- Day Seven (@youm7) September 4, 2022
A number of villagers confirmed that there is a kinship between the accused and the victim's family, and that the accused had proposed to her, but her family refused to be linked to him due to his misconduct.
However, members of the victim's family said - in statements to the Masrawy website - that the accused had always tried to object their daughter with harassment and request marriage, but he was not serious, so he did not propose to her, accompanying his family and never entering the victim's house.
The family added that the victim repeatedly complained about the harassment of the young man, and after she left the house yesterday, Saturday, to go to the "bakery" to pay for the bread, and after her return and while entering the house, she was surprised by a shot from a firearm that caused her death.
Dozens of villagers gathered in front of the hospital, awaiting the release of Amani's body, for his funeral to his final resting place in the family cemetery in the village, while the security forces in Menoufia intensified their efforts to arrest the fugitive accused.
She refused the marriage proposal, so he shot her in front of her house.. Amani is a new victim in Menoufia pic.twitter.com/DNrjjzVj9E
- Al-Masry Al-Youm (@AlMasryAlYoum) September 4, 2022
This crime brings to mind the incident of the murder of Mansoura University student Naira Ashraf at the hands of her colleague who stabbed and slaughtered her with a knife, last June, and caused shock in Egypt and the Arab world, after circulating video clips of the moment.
In a similar incident, less than two months after Naira's killing, Salma Bahgat, 20, was stabbed at least 15 times in Sharkia Governorate (north of Cairo), and a colleague was accused of killing her after she refused his marriage proposal.