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| Frenchman Dies after Jailhouse Beating |
| 2013-09-18 |
[An Nahar] A French citizen died after being attacked by cellmates in a Cairo cop shoppe, where he tossed in the clinkYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! for breaking a night-time curfew, security officials said on Tuesday. Police placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the man in the upmarket Zamalek neighborhood of the capital for violating the nightly curfew in force since the launch of a deadly crackdown on Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi on August 14. The man, described as a teacher, was put in a cell at the central Qasr al-Nil cop shoppe, where he was attacked by his cellmates and later died of his injuries, the officials added. Six cellmates are being kept in jug as part of an investigation into "bodily harm resulting in death," a judicial source said. A post-mortem found that the Frenchie died from "internal haemorrhaging" and a "skull fracture," the security officials said. The victim did not have a valid visa at the time of his arrest, the security officials said. The French embassy said he was a long-term resident of Egypt. The embassy added that it had asked for clarification from judicial authorities of the circumstances of the man's death and was still waiting for a reply. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Business. Or because he is an egyptologist. But egyptologists and people with regular jobs have visas. Could be some kind of hippie whose world tour never went past Egypt but that is highly improbable. |
| Posted by: JFM 2013-09-18 12:28 |
| #2 And why on earth would a Charles, Edouard, Jean or Louis want to live in Cairo when he could be living in France? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-09-18 11:58 |
| #1 A French in Egypt in these times? A long term resident and without a visa? Excuse me but what kind of French was he? From the Charles, Edouard, Jean, Louis variety or from the Muhammad, Ibrahim, Abdel variety? Was he from the clean shaven or from the bearded variety? |
| Posted by: JFM 2013-09-18 07:40 |