Egypt, raped by a group of rich men in a luxury hotel in Cairo. But the police arrest those who report

Kidnapped and taken to a luxurious room. Fairmont Nile Hotel of the Cairo, stunned with the so-called ‘rape drug’ and then raped all night by a gang of scions of Egyptian high society. A horror scene, and a video uploaded to some social groups is the basis for the reopening of a cold case that otherwise would have remained a dead letter. For six years that nightmare remained buried. No one at the time, including the victim of hate violence, a girl who participated in the party inside the exclusive hotel overlooking the Nile, had reported the fact.

At the end of August the Cairo Prosecutor has highlighted a series of arrest warrants, at least nine officers. The publication of the video in Social anticipated the investigation and favored the escape of most of the responsable. Three were arrested in Lebanon and now I’m looking forward to it extradition by the authorities of Beirut. Two other men were stranded at the international airport Cairo when they left the country. Against them the Justice will run its course, but many fear cover ups and the announced end of judicial correspondence with a stalemate. The attention of the authorities, for the moment, is directed elsewhere. In a clear society To die male chauvinist Like the Egyptian, victims of crimes of this type are in a hurry to end up on the side of the guilty, convinced to keep their mouths shut to avoid cool plus.

The four girls who were arrested and imprisoned in reference to the case are well aware of this last Saturday Fairmont. His fault was to voluntarily resort to policeman to tell more details about the matter after the fact. Of witnesses of an infamous act (the four had attended that party) to the culprit of ‘inciting debauchery and damaging the image of the Egyptian state’, in addition to the use of drugs. the Young people have been subjected to drug testing me test forensic, their phones and Technological equipment seized and all material downloaded and analyzed. The mud machine moved towards them and was powered by media diet, newspapers, television and especially online sites affiliated withSecurity agency, ready to drag witnesses in dock rather than the material perpetrators of the gang rape.

A smear campaign aimed at targeting witnesses he activists rights and at the same time reduce group violence, even denying the veracity of the video with explicit images of that night in Fairmont. In Egypt says so. Cases of sexual violence in the world of entertainment that overwhelmed the American star system, also affecting Italy, at least produced a reaction and the birth of the movement #I also. Something impossible in the land of Pharaohs, where the role of donna is, use a euphemism, placed in margins of the society.

If the feminine world does badly in Egypt, the worse are the rights defenders Lgbt. He knows something about it Patrick Zaki |, the Erasmus student from the University of Bologna arrested in Cairo on February 7, an expert on rights gender. They also know Sarah hegazy, the lesbian activist who fled her country after a harsh period of detention, guilty of waving the rainbow flag during a concert and committing suicide in Canada a few months ago, and Malak el-Kashif, transgender women subjected to violence in prison by prison officials from the male section.

The Fairmont Nile Hotel Case – The influence of social networks was decisive, for better or for worse, when it came to causing the scandal. In late July, images of that gang rape appeared on some artistically created profiles, including Gang rapists me Police attacks. An impressive document capable of opening the investigation, albeit very slowly, to the point of allowing many gods Young people offspring, at the time between 20 and 25 years, to leave the country. A report with a delayed burst capable of saving unprecedented violence. The victim had been invited into the room that night by one of the guests party, but once inside he found himself facing a banquet of males violent. The girl was drugged with Ghb, an acid known as a “rape drug,” and was unconscious for several hours, setting the gang free. Among the most gruesome details, the engraving of the initials of each one of those present in the poor girl’s body.

Rape me violence they were recorded on video taken with a smartphone and later distributed to some close friends. Evidently there was a leak in the conspiratorial circuit of rapists and the video got into the wrong hands. In Egypt, the Fairmont case is the topic of the moment and follows a series of episodes linked to the same trend, the sexual violence, which began in June with the arrest of a serial rapist, Ahmed Zaki, recognized as responsible for dozens of cases. Then there is the story of a famous man egyptian reporter, union member of journalists, victim of online crime. Decided to put it with him back wall attacks anonymous appeared on two blogs in which victims of violence I have told the details and describing in great detail the responsable, not to mention it with Name me last name, but with the initials. In a short time, from the day of the first accusation, the complaints-reports against him they have multiplied, all published in blogs and considered plausible. the Journalist, very experienced and known in Egypt and also active in foreign settings, he rejected any accusation, but meanwhile the newspapers with which he collaborated interrupted relations with the professional and the union suspended him. At the moment, the Cairo prosecutor has not issued any restrictive measures against him.

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