A video of a Jordanian member of parliament and his three brothers beating up an Egyptian waiter has caused public outrage. The incident happened on Friday evening at a restaurant in Aqaba and was caught on CCTV. In the surveillance video, dated October 2 2015, two men in black suits and a man in a black t-shirt are seen standing in a hallway. One of them – supposedly the Jordanian MP Zaid El-Shawakbah – calls over a waiter, Egyptian Khalid El-Sayed. The MP starts talking to the waiter, grabbing him by the shoulder and pointing his index finger at his chest several times. A few seconds later a man to the left of the MP hits El-Sayed in the side of his head at which point several workers of the restaurant step in to try and protect El-Sayyed, but he gets slapped again by a man standing to the right of the MP. A man in a white dress shirt – supposedly the MP’s brother Anwar – then leaps into the frame and hits El-Sayyed in the face several times. The incident then moves out of the view of the security camera. Throughout the attack El-Sayed seems surprised and doesn’t defend himself. According to eyewitnesses the assault continued off camera and El-Sayed supposedly…
Video of Jordanian MP Beating an Egyptian Waiter in Aqaba Stirs Outrage
October 5, 2015
