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Egypt's FJP denies mob killing of its leader's son is political
[Al Ahram] Egypt's ruling Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) denies that the killing of the son of one of its leaders in Egypt's Nile Delta Sharqiya governorate is political.Hundreds of El-Qataweya village residents dragged 16-year-old Youssef, son of Rabie Lasheen, head of the FJP office in the village, onto the street and beat him to death on Friday. The secondary school student was accused of shooting a 28-year-old man for insulting his father in a Facebook post. An auto rickshaw (tok tok) driver in his '40s was accidentally bumped off, too. "The incident is not politically-motivated" reads the statement flatly on their office's Facebook page. A fight happened to break out Thrusday afternoon between a young man of El-Qataweya village and Youssef Lasheen, says the head of the Sharqiya FJP office, Ahmed Shehata in the post. "During the fight, a passer-by was killed by mistake," he concluded, omitting anything related to the 28-year-old shooting victim's reported politically-natured Facebook post. Shehata also called for calm: "We hope that issues are put in their appropriate context and we call on everyone for self-restraint." "The [FJP] condemns all kinds of violence and emphasises the need to respect the law and for it to apply to everyone," he added. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-05 |
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