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Counselor Yasser Sinjab, head of the Zagazig Criminal Court, decided to postpone the trial of Islam Muhammad Fathi, the killer of the student Salma Bahgat, the girl of Zagazig, until October 3, to present him to the mental health hospital in Abbasiya.
This morning, Tuesday, the Zagazig Criminal Court witnessed intense security measures, as security forces and police dogs were deployed in the vicinity of the court, and iron barriers were deployed to secure the second session of the trial of the accused of killing Salma Bahgat, the girl of Al-Sharqiya.
The accused of killing Salma, the Zagazig girl, appeared in the first session of his trial coherent and firm, confident in his speech, answering all the court’s questions steadily and poise, and completely denied that he was a mental patient, stressing that his father forced him to go to a mental health hospital and stayed there for 10 days and then left following, despite He was not suffering from any mental illness.
It is noteworthy that the court, headed by Counselor Yasser Sinjab, President of the Court, Counsellor Dr. Mustafa Balassi, and the membership of Counselor Ahmed Samir Selim, the Secretariat of Muhammad Farouk and Ahmed Gharib, postponed the trial of the accused of killing the student Salma, the girl of Zagazig, until today, to request the defendant’s defense to include his medical file and pleadings.
Psychological consultant
Today, the Zagazig Criminal Court summoned a psychological consultant and medical director at Al-Azayem Hospital to hear his statements regarding the medical diagnosis of the case of Islam Fathi, the killer of Salma Bahgat, a Zagazig girl.
The psychological consultant said, while hearing his statements at the court session, that Islam, the killer of Salma, the Zagazig girl, entered the “Jamal Abu Al-Azaim” mental health hospital on July 25, 2019 and stayed there for regarding 10 days, when he was discharged specifically on August 3, 2019 at the request of his father.
The psychological consultant added that Salma’s killer entered the hospital suffering from acute psychosis, which is one of the mental disorders that affect the patient, pointing out that the psychotic patient – in a severe case – might harm himself or others.
And the medical director of Al-Azaim Hospital revealed that he might not find out the details of Salma’s killer’s case because he was not the doctor treating him, noting that his treating doctor died in March 2022.
The medical director of Al-Azaim Hospital confirmed that he might not be certain that the condition of the disease was still going on with Islam for all these years, and he might not be certain if the killer of the Zagazig girl was in full mental powers during the execution of the crime.
