The Egyptian judiciary has brought down the curtain on the murder case of Salma Bahgat Al-Shawadfi, a student at the Faculty of Information at Al-Shorouk Academy, known as the "Girl of Zagazig" or "Girl of the East", at the hands of her colleague at the same college, according to local media.
After taking the legal opinion of his execution by the Mufti of Egypt, the Zagazig Criminal Court sentenced the accused, Islam Muhammad Fathi, to death by hanging today, Monday, for convicting him of murdering the victim, Salma Bahgat, known in the media as "the Zagazig girl", stabbed with a blade, after her family refused to be associated with him.
Long live justice
, O Mighty, O Forgiving, you are over all things.
Oh God, have mercy on her in her grave while she is in your hands, forgive her and compensate her for a good one, and make her one of the immortals in the gardens of bliss, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
#Salma_Bahgat pic.twitter.com/LJKYpcRxRN
— Fatma🇪🇬 (@Fatma40652246) November 7, 2022
Similar to the case of the murder of the student Naira Ashraf, known as the "Girl of Mansoura", the city of Zagazig in the Sharkia Governorate, northern Egypt, witnessed on August 8 last year, the student Islam Muhammad killing his colleague at the Faculty of Information at Al-Shorouk Academy Salma Bahgat, after several stab wounds to her that killed her.
The medical report prepared at the Abbasiya Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases confirmed that the accused neither at the present time nor at the time of the accusation had any symptoms indicating psychological and mental disorder, and this makes him responsible for the accusation against him.
Praise be to God, he has the right to return the execution by hanging to the killer # Salma_Bahgat Suffice God and He is the best agent in every unjust killer.💔 pic.twitter.com/bN84VAhwC1
— Lamiaa Azmy (@princess_pigie) November 7, 2022
17 stab
According to the defendant's confessions and police investigations, the crime took place at the entrance to a building, where the accused monitored his victim, and as soon as she arrived, he stabbed her with 17 effective stab wounds.
Naira Ashraf
Last June, the city of Mansoura, Dakahlia Governorate, northern Egypt, witnessed a similar incident, specifically in front of the Mansoura University building, when a young man stabbed his fellow student, Naira Ashraf, all over her body, then slaughtered her in front of passers-by, in retaliation for her because she refused his love, as he said in Investigations before the official authorities.
The video clip that spread at the time and terrified the Egyptians, in which the young student Mohamed Adel appeared outside the walls of Mansoura University, stabbing and slaying his colleague Naira Ashraf to death, after she refused to marry him.
The Mansoura Criminal Court, which sentenced Adel to death by hanging, called on the Egyptian parliament to amend the law regulating the death penalty to allow the execution of execution procedures to be broadcast live.
After the killings of Naira and Salma, Egypt witnessed two similar incidents last September and October.
On the fourth of last September, a young man named Ahmed Fathi killed a girl named Amani Abdel Karim, by shooting her in the street in the village of Toukh Tanbesha, in the Menoufia Governorate, north of Cairo, for refusing to marry him. He ran away and then committed suicide the next day.
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
Last October, the Public Prosecution Office in Egypt decided to imprison a young man who killed his fiancée in retaliation for her breaking off her engagement to him. This is the fourth crime that Egypt has witnessed in about 5 months due to the refusal to marry.
After her body was found with traces of suffocation on the neck, the Ministry of Interior says it arrested the fiancé of Port Said girl, Kholoud Al-Sayed, 20, for assaulting her out of revenge, following disputes between them pic.twitter.com/TBQAlSAnP7
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) October 17, 2022
The accused confessed before the investigation authorities to the crime of murdering his fiancée Kholoud Al-Sayed Darwish, 20, who lives in the Sharq neighborhood in Port Said governorate, north of Cairo, and works in a textile factory out of revenge for refusing to marry him.