The Manchester United star sues an Egyptian student from Sharkia Governorate and sends 10 lawyers to court
An Egyptian court is considering a lawsuit filed by the England and Manchester United star, Marcus Rashford, against a student in Sharkia Governorate, for "insulting, slandering and using racist and offensive terms" through a post on one of the player's official pages.
Sayed Salama, the lawyer for the Egyptian student, said that the English player accused his client of abusing him through racist words, bullying and threatening him in a tweet on a social networking site.
And Salama added, in statements to the “Third Degree” program on the Egyptian channel “On Sport”: “The student came to me and told me that a case was brought against me by Marcus Rashford, and I did not believe him at first, and he told me that the case is here, and the English player made a power of attorney for a law firm in Egypt. And I was surprised that the English star decided to sue a fan in an Egyptian village.”
And he continued, "10 lawyers pleaded the case against the student in favor of Rashford, to the extent that the court was surprised by the case, and the session took a long time, because of the lawyers' pleading."
He confirmed that Rashford's lawyers demanded a temporary compensation of 15,000 pounds, and then they will demand the compensation he wants.
On Thursday, Mansoura Court decided to postpone the case to the next July 7 session, according to the lawyer’s statements.
According to the sports website, "Kora", the Manchester United club had directed the companies that sponsor the players' accounts to report any message that might appear as an insult to them or carry any racist words in response to the wave of abusive phrases and racist criticism that reached the players' families and wives during the past season.
She pointed out that these companies were the ones who filed the lawsuit against the Egyptian student, not the player himself.
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