Saturday 31/2025 – 09:48 am
The Tanta Misdemeanor Court in Gharbia Governorate is heard shortly, the first trial sessions of Anousa Kutta, a famous Lions coach on charges of negligence that caused the circus worker Mohamed El Bastawisi, after he was attacked by a tiger that led to amputation of his left arm during one of the recreational performances in Sirk in the Burifaj Land in Tanta, the second day of Eid Al -Fitr.
The first trial sessions of Anousa Kouta
Cairo 24 obtained the text of the investigations into the attack of one of the tigers on a worker inside the Tanta Circus, as it resulted in the worker with a permanent disability and the amputation of his left arm.
The sayings of the Lions coach Anousa Kuta
Investigative papers included the accused testimony, Mahasin Medhat, famous for Anousa Kuta, the Lions coach, who faced accusations of serious neglect and disturbing the duties of securing the offer, along with the statements of the witnesses, and the report of the delegated committee from the official authorities, which monitored many violations within the circus.
And by appearing the trainer Anousa Kuta in front of the competent investigative authorities and asking her about what she said in what is attributed to her that she is accused of causing the injury of the victim, Mohamed Ibrahim -a mistake and this was arising from her neglect and her debts and not being careful and not observing the laws and regulations that the tiger caused him under her training his injuries contained in the papers? These accusations were denied, saying: This is not a matter.
Anousa Kuta’s statements came in the investigations as follows:
Q: What is your academic qualification?
A: Bachelor of rights and a diploma in international law.
Q: What is the nature of your job and your job specialization?
A: I am working a black coach and a coach in the state circus and I have my own Circutula Circle.
Q: Since when you are, you are the job specialization?
A: From about 33 years old.
Q: Did you get a license to train predators from the competent authorities?
A: Oh, I have a circus setting permit and the license is that of them will be the training of predators like black and tigers.
Q: How long have you had that license?
A: About 10 years.
Q: From which competent authorities did you obtain that license?
A: From the Ministry of Culture.
Q: What is the nature of that license specifically?
A: I have several licenses, including a license issued by the Ministry of Culture and its content, to establish a secret and deal with predators. Being an assistant trainer in the international secret and holding a diploma from Russia, and also holds a license from the Ministry of Environment and its content.
Q: Do you have these licenses, the cost of the statement, specifically now?
C is not with me and I pledge to present it.
Q: What happened in the incident?
A is the one who happened that on 1/4-15 is around 11:00 pm. The tiger Boca and the tiger actually went to the chair and suddenly he attacked the arm of Muhammad Ibrahim Al -Shamal, and I preferred to strike the tiger with Karbaj, which was with me to give him .. And the people who were standing by the righteousness of the cage were tightening Muhammad away from the tiger and after that we took it and we got up to him on the Tanta University Hospital to conduct first aid, and I always warn the workers in the circus. And the lion as long as I am there because the predators can attack this that extends its hand and its injury occurs, which is all that happened.
Q: A king of the circus in the accident?
A: He is royal.
Q: Where is that circus in particular?
A: In the exhibition area in the first Tanta district.
Q: A king from the land on which that circus is built?
A: It is the land of Gharbia Governorate.
Q: What is your residence support for that circus with the plot of land in Gharbia Governorate?
A: I am a glycker on which the circus is built from Gharbia Governorate.
Q: What is the rental value of that land specifically?
A: I am rewarded for 70 thousand pounds per month.
Q: Is there an agreement to do so?
A: Oh, in which there is a contract, and the contract is its origin in Gharbia Governorate, and it is not with me.
Q: Is there among the provisions of that contract between you and the General Court of Gharbia Governorate, the establishment of a circus containing predators such as lions and tigers?
A: Oh, of course, the contract is included.
Q: Did you obtain the approvals of the competent authorities in Gharbia Governorate in general to establish a circus that contains predators such as lions and tigers?
A: Oh, I hold the approval of the civil defense, the approval of Gharbia Governorate, the approval of the environment, and the approval of veterinary medicine from Cairo to establish a circus containing predators such as lions and tigers in the exhibition land in Tanta, Gharbia Governorate.
Q: Where are these approvals now?
A: It is not with me now and I pledge to present it.
Q: What is the nature of the work of the injured worker Mohamed Ibrahim?
A: He is a circus worker with a call, and he is called a black coach assistant, and he has been working in the circus for 5 years.
Q: What is meant by the phrase as an assistant trainer and a whisting of the tales?
A: A coach assistant who will be an assistant for the captain who is inside the cage, but from outside the cage, during the show, so that he gives me food (meat) to feed black and tigers during the show.
Anousa Kouta referred to trial for accusing her of causing amputation of the arm of the circus worker
The Public Prosecution, the papers restricted a misdemeanor and violating Article 244 paragraphs 1, 2 and 377 of the Penal Code against the circus coach, as it caused an error in the injury of the victim, as this arises from its neglect and its defense and its lack of precaution and the grave breach, as it imposes on it the origins of her craft while performing the display of predators in the circus in question.
The referral decision included that the accused did not take adequate measures to protect the circus audience from the risk of the existence of predators in a state of risk that caused the victim to be injured, who caused a permanent disability, which was to amputate his left arm at the top of the elbow.
