Tuesday 16/Sep/2025 – 03:12 AM
The Cairo Criminal Court, the sixth district south, headed by Counselor Hisham Abdel Majid and membership of Counselors Nasser Ismail Dahshan and Amr Mohamed Fawzi, sentenced to one year old, who was imprisoned for a year with work and fined them 500 thousand pounds each, against the background of their conviction of excavating antiquities and possession of white weapons in the Al -Darb Al -Ahmar area.
Traders imprisoned the effects of one year and a fine of half a million pounds
The ruling was issued in case No. 1577 of 2022 crimes of Al -Darb Al -Ahmar, which is restricted by 623 of 2022, in the south of Cairo, in which Mustafa and Ibrahim M.
The case papers revealed that the defendants and others were previously sentenced to drilling work inside a property on Bab Al -Wazir Street with the intention of excavating the antiquities, as the department’s investigation officers found a 4 -meter hole that extends horizontally for a distance of 30 meters in the direction of the archaeological group of Khair Bey, equipped with lamps and electrical wires, in addition to various excavation tools.
Investigations indicated that the defendants were caught in the place of the incident, as they acknowledged during their discussion that the excavation was in favor of one of the heirs, who had previously been tried in the same case.
During the trial sessions, the defendants’ defense was prompted to invalidate the procedures for arresting and inspection due to the absence of flagrante delicto, as well as the invalidity of the declaration attributed to them and the contradiction of the investigations of the detective, noting that there is no connection between the accused and the property except that it is a legacy between them. However, the court turned away from these defenses and considered them not based on a valid support of the law.
In its ruling, the court relied on the testimony of the incident and the reports of the Technical Committee and the Antiquities Investigation, which confirmed that the excavation was for the purpose of excavating antiquities. The court also clarified that the law does not require the crime to be the excavation in an archaeological area registered, but rather that the intention is to excavate the effects.
