By Coptic Solidarity
Published on Monday, 20 August 2012 14:32
Christian Copts in Upper Egypt are under attack, hours after
a call for their eradication appeared in the form of leaflets calling on
Muslims to kill Copts, specifically naming regions of Upper
Egypt .
A report by Fady Talaat, for Al Akhbar News, published
August 14, has the details. In Al Gallaweya Village, Sohag, Upper
Egypt , Christians are being beaten, their stores destroyed, and
their properties plundered. The attackers are declaring that “any Christian who
dares to leave his house will be killed”; and the Copts are complaining that
the police only arrive after the damage has been completely done.
Nageh Hozar, one of the attacked victims now lying in the
hospital said that a known felon, who is also a fugitive living in the village,
named Mo'tassem Sedky Rashwan, came to a supermarket owned by his brother Fady
Hozar to buy cigarettes. He took the cigarettes and refused to pay for them.
Instead, he asked Fady to pay him EGP 50 as “tribute.” When the latter refused
they had a dispute. The criminal, then, left and came back with his thug
brothers, cousins and friends. Zaki explained that the whole gang started
beating him up along with his brothers Thomas and Fady Hozar and others, using
sticks and canes, leaving them dangerously injured.
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