The governor of Cairo has ordered fines of up to 5,000 Egyptian pounds ($US 639) to be given to anyone found slaughtering animals in the street during the upcoming Eid Al-Adha holiday, Al-Ahram reports. According to the governor, Galal Saeed, killing animals on the street is detrimental to the surroundings and causes ‘inhumane conditions’. “We’ve been slaughtering animals in the street during Eid for years,” Khalid Karim, who owns a butcher shop in the Cairo district of Agouza, tells Egyptian Streets. “My shop is really small, I can’t fit all the animals that need to be killed for Eid in there, so we do it on the street. We clean up really well afterwards. We have to, otherwise the street is full of rats and flies. The stench is unbearable. Nobody wants that.” Karim hopes the police will only fine people after the first day of the celebrations. “Let them walk down the streets to see where it’s not clean and then hand out fines,” he suggests. Mohammad Eissa, a butcher in Cairo’s Bab el-Louq district, is annoyed at what he calls “another way for the government to take my money.” “This is what I do for a living,” he explains….
Slaughtering Animals On Cairo’s Streets During Eid Will Cost You EGP 5,000
September 19, 2015
