Two police officers were sent to four days in prison pending investigations, on charges of assaulting prosecutor Haitham Magdi Ghoneim and restraining him with handcuffs in a police checkpoint in Tanta, Gharbiya, after the three exchanged accusations of beating each other.
Police officers and security personnel in Gharbiya threatened to go on strike and start a sit-in against the decision to imprison the two officers, Mohamed Mustafa Hammad and Mohab al-Sayes, and claimed that their colleagues in all governorates would support them as well.
Reconciliation efforts made under the sponsorship of security and judicial leaders, under the supervision of Gharbiya Security Directorate Osama Bedier, failed because of the stance of the officers and the prosecutor, who rejected any attempts to reconcile them, after mutual accusations of assaults, said a security source.
The Tanta Attorney General asked the forensics department to examine the police officers and the prosecutor to prove the charges of mutual assault.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
