For the third time in four months, a young man murdered a young girl after she refused to marry him in Menoufia Governorate,
In Berket El Saba’ city in Menoufia, Ahmed Fathi Omeira (29) shot dead academic student Amany Abdel-Karim Al Gazar outside her house over rejected him as a husband.
The Public Prosecution launched an immediate investigation into the murder.
On June 20, 2022, student Mohamed Adel deliberately killed his coleague Nayera Ashraf on outside Mansoura University. On 6 July 2022, Mansoura Criminal Court sentenced to death the killer, on the grounds of his accusation of premeditated murder.
The court relied on several evidence in convicting the defendant, Mohamed Adel, and punish him per the provisions of the articles of the Penal Code.
According to investigations, Adel intended to kill her in retaliation for her refuse to engage to him. Adel confessed that he set a plan to commit his crime, where he waited until Nayera Ashraf (the victim) finished her final exam and left the university campus, and he attacked her, slit her neck in the street and left her soaked in blood. The crime scene was captured on camera and went viral on social media, where floods of angry comments calling for justice took over different platforms ever since.
Also, On August 12, 2022, the Egyptian Public Prosecution referred student Islam Mohamed to the criminal trial over killing his female colleague, Salma Bahgat, in Egypt’s Zagazig after he was charged with premeditated murder.
According to the prosecution, Mohamed stabbed Bahgat with the aim of killing her after she and her family refused his proposal due to his “strange thoughts, bad behavior, and after she stopped communicating with him”.
The prosecution said he threatened her and some of her family that he would kill her, noting that they ignored the threats.
Mohamed bought a knife and waited for Bahgat inside a building that he knew she would be in at the time of crime and stabbed her to death.
Source: Egypt Today Magazine