Lebanon’s Ministry of Interior and Municipalities announced on Saturday evening that its security forces had arrested three Egyptians implicated in the gang rape of a young woman at the Fairmont Nile City hotel in Cairo in 2014. In a statement on Facebook, the Lebanese General Directorate of Internal Security Forces said it had acted to arrest the three Egyptians after receiving a notice from Interpol. “On 27 August, the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces received a memo from the office of the Interpol in Egypt which consisted of the names of seven Egyptians, located in Lebanon, accused of raping a woman in 2014 at a hotel in Cairo and that a video of the incident was recently received by the Egyptian judiciary,” read the statement. The statement continued that security forces acted immediately to conduct necessary investigations, but that only three Egyptians were still in Lebanon at the time the memo from Interpol was received. The three Egyptians had left the hotels they were staying in, with their belongings abandoned in their hotel rooms. However, the statement added that Lebanese forces were able to locate the three Egyptians after…
Three Accused Egyptian ‘Fairmont’ Gang Rapists Arrested in Lebanon
August 30, 2020
