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Police officers accused of fatally shooting 2 brothers in Suez

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Mada Masr | January 6, 2015

Two police officers in Suez face charges of premeditated murder for allegedly shooting two brothers to death on Monday morning. The prosecution has ordered the suspects into custody for four days pending investigations, the privately owned news site Youm7 reported on Tuesday.

Mohamed and Ahmed Seoudi were driving their motorbike to work around 8 am on Monday morning when they came upon a police patrol force, their uncle Gharib Mehled told Mada Masr. The two men purportedly then swerved onto a small side street “to avoid the usual police harassment” when one officer followed them, then shot them both in the head at close range.

“They were respectable young men, and their motorbike was registered and carried the license plate number 23235 SUEZ, contrary to rumors that it was not licensed,” Mehled argued.

One of the men was 26 and was supposed to get married in two months, while his 22-year-old brother was a wrestling champion who trained in an army establishment, as proven by his identification card, the uncle asserted.

A Facebook user by the name Mahmoud Shawky was allegedly present at the scene of the crime and posted photos of the two men after they were shot.

“One of them was an army soldier on vacation and the other was a roman wrestling champion,” Shawky wrote in mourning.

“By nature, people in Egypt are scared when they see the police instead of feeling safe. The [victims] ran away, so they were shot in the head out of mere suspicion,” he added.

In another post, Shawky claimed that after the victims were shot, the officer kicked their bodies until he was sure they were dead.

“Running away was definitely wrong, but they didn’t deserve to be executed on the spot,” Shawky wrote.

The Suez prosecution office confiscated the bullets that killed the victims and ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Meanwhile, the victims’s family gathered at the Suez morgue to protest the incident, the privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.

On Monday night, funeral proceedings for the two men turned into a demonstration that headed toward the security directorate. … Full article

January 7, 2015 - Posted by | Civil Liberties | ,

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