01:41 PM
Sunday 09 October 2022
Books – Ahmed Adel:
The defense of the accused in the case, known in the media as the “reckless Suez driver,” said that his client’s father had contracted a malignant disease that might cost his life.
In his plea before the court, the lawyer added that the cause of the incident was that the accused, Ahmed Jamal Farghali, suffered a psychological crisis following learning that his father needed urgent surgery.
The Public Prosecutor had ordered the referral of the accused, Ahmed Gamal Farghali, a 47-year-old university employee, to the relevant criminal court to be punished for what he was accused of possessing with intent to use narcotic substances in cases other than those authorized by law, and for driving a car under the influence of these drugs recklessly and without caution on the Cairo-Suez Road.
The Public Prosecution had established evidence before the accused, Ahmed Jamal Farghali, from the video clips that were monitored on social media, which recorded the accused driving his car on the public road recklessly and without caution, which endangered people’s lives, and what was proven in the report of the chemical laboratory that the seizures found in the possession of the accused contained narcotic jewels. And what was proven in the report of the chemical laboratory at the Forensic Medicine Authority of the positive samples taken from the accused, and their evidence of his abuse of narcotic substances seized from his possession, in addition to what witnesses testified.
The details of the incident go back when the security services managed to arrest a person for driving recklessly in one of the traffic hubs in Cairo, which led to the disruption of traffic, endangering his safety and others. Especially for the use of the drug Ice – an unknown medical drug), and legal measures were taken, and the Public Prosecution took over the investigation.