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Lebanese authorities arrested three Egyptians on suspicion of their involvement in the gang rape of a girl in Egypt, dating back to 2014, and it was not revealed until recently.
The arrest of the suspects followed a request from the office of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in Egypt.
The alleged incident in Egypt was publicly reported on social media in July, sparking outrage in the country.
The pioneers of social networking sites demanded an investigation into an alleged story, about a series of young men who sexually assaulted a girl at the “Fairmont Nile City” hotel, almost six years after it occurred.
According to accounts, the suspects, who belong to wealthy families, lured a girl during a hotel party to a room after she had drunk her drug drink, then took turns raping her and filmed the incident.
In early August, the Egyptian prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation after receiving a letter from the National Council of Women, an Egyptian government institution that deals with women’s affairs, accompanied by a complaint from a girl to the council about some people who sexually assaulted her inside the hotel.
Last Monday, the Egyptian Prosecutor’s Office ordered “the arrest and release of the defendants in the incident of sexual assault against a girl at the” Fairmont “hotel in 2014, and put them on the travel veto lists and await access to be questioned about what is attributed to them.
The Egyptian Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that it had taken “steps to arrest all the accused through Interpol.”
On Wednesday, the Egyptian prosecutor announced that he had ordered the arrest of nine people on suspicion of their involvement in the case.
A day later, the Egyptian authorities announced the arrest of at least one suspect.
On Saturday, the Internal Security Forces in Lebanon said in a statement that they had received a request from the Interpol office in Egypt to arrest “seven persons of Egyptian nationality who are in Lebanon” for indicting them in this case.
However, it was found that only five of them “entered Lebanon on earlier dates, and then two of them left to land the number of three suspects within Lebanese territory.”
For its part, the hotel announced that it had carried out an internal investigation and confirmed that it had never been informed of this accident by any part of the hotel or the tourism police, according to the Agence France-Presse news agency.
According to studies by United Nations human rights groups, more than 90 percent of women in Egypt have been subjected to harassment in various ways at different stages of their lives.
