court ruled Sohag Criminal Today, headed by Counselor Mohamed Abdel Hafez, and the membership of advisers Walid Al-Amir, and Najah Abdel Hamid, with the secretariat of Majed Amin, Taha Hussein, “Abu Al-Hajjaj. S. A.A.”, the Spanish train assistant 2011, and “Jamal. M. A. H.”, the leader of the same train, was imprisoned for a period of time. 15 years and obligating them to compensate the Railway Authority with an amount of 28 million and 942 thousand and 495 pounds for the damages.
It also sentenced “Mohamed.A.A.S.”, the leader of the distinguished train 157, to 10 years in prison and a fine of 10,000 pounds, and “Amr.A.A.S.” The same train was imprisoned for two years. And “Karam.Y.H.kh”, a technical observer at the Central Control Center in Assiut, and “Sami.J.H.G”, a technical observer in the Central Control in Assiut, were sentenced to 5 years in prison.
It is noteworthy that the court had previously heard the defense’s plea, and the Sohag Criminal Court had, before that, considered the case of the trial of 8 defendants in the “Tahta train accident” case before the Ninth Circuit, to discuss the sixteenth and seventeenth witnesses as a defense request, and the Public Prosecution commissioned them to announce them for that session.
The court had decided before that to include the seizure of the Form 67 movement subject of the forgery, the subject of the first accusation, as well as the seizure of the mobile phone of the third accused for that session, with the continued imprisonment of the accused, with the continued imprisonment of the accused for that session and the postponement of the escape until tomorrow’s session
The events of the incident date back to March 26 of last year, when the Public Prosecution charged eight defendants: (A. R. 51 years old), the assistant captain of the Spanish train No. 2011 (J. M. 54 years old), a locomotive driver, (M. A. 41 years old) an assistant commander. Locomotives of the Egyptian Railways Authority No. 157, (AS 50 years old) The leader of the distinguished train No. 157, (AD 46 years) Supervisor of the distinguished train No. 157, (A. R. 52 years old) assistant superintendent of the train No. 157, (S. C 53 years old) the station supervisor of the railway traffic departments in Assiut, (K. J. 49 years old), a technical observer in the Central Monitoring of the Railway Authority in Assiut, that they mistakenly caused the death of 21 people (Mohammed. M.) and Khaled. N) and (Hussain. A), (Ahmed, H), (Mustafa. Z) and (Ahmed, A), (Ahmed, M), (Ahmed, A) and (Bakhita, M) and ( Ali J., Hani. M., Salama. K., Jaber. A, Amr. T, Saleh, R., Ali, A., Abdel Nasser. A, and Marzouk. S) and (Atta. A), (Mukhtar. M) and (Abdul Hamid. A) because of their negligence, failure to observe laws and regulations, and their grave breach of what their job principles impose on them.
The first accused violated the orders to operate him as an assistant to the captain of the Spanish train No. 2011, who is entrusted with paying attention to the route and the indications of the semaphores and the use of the emergency brakes assigned to him when necessary, by driving the train exceeding the prescribed speeds and unnecessarily, and not operating the automatic control device “AtC” supplied to that train, and the second accused Also, for not running it when the latter received the train as its leader from Luxor station, so he lost his benefit, which is to stop the train automatically, and the latter enabled the first accused to drive the train in violation of the regulations and instructions, and not respond to the wireless communications received from them from the central control room
And the accused from the third to the sixth, did not take measures to prevent the special train No. 157 immediately following the accident, which took a period of time that exceeded 10 minutes, according to the operating safety list issued by their employer, in addition to the third accused’s use of two narcotic substances “hashish and tramadol”, and the seventh and eighth defendants were slack In the second defendant’s notification by radio that the distinguished train No. 157 had stopped on its route, and if the seventh wirelessly communicated, he made the call by mistake on another train, and the eighth did not follow the trains equipped with the automatic control device, “Atc”, including the two trains subject of the collision, and the two trains did not communicate, which resulted in The Spanish train No. 2011 collided with the distinguished train 157, which resulted in the death of 21 people and the injury of 227 others. They also caused the injury of the first and second victims, whose names are described by revealing those with permanent disabilities that are impossible to cure, so the first victim was 65%, and the second victim 35%.
By their mistake, they caused serious harm to the funds and interests of the entity they work for and the interests of others entrusted to that entity, and this was caused by their negligence in performing their job and their breach of its duties with their neglect to use money from the public funds entrusted to them, which resulted in the collision of the Spanish train No. 2011 with the distinguished train No. 157 and financial damage of (28 million pounds and 942 thousand and 495 pounds) with their unintentionally causing an accident to one of the land public transportation, which is the collision of train No. 2011 with the back of the distinguished train No. 157, which endangered its passengers
