After a video of a woman abducting a child in Egypt following he was drugged, spread like wildfire, causing panic, the facts were revealed.
It turned out that 4 teenagers had prepared the video, which sparked terror in the Egyptian street, in order to achieve high views on social networking sites.
As the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed that the clip that showed A veiled woman kidnapped a child following stabbing him in the shoulder with a pin containing a drugforged.
It also announced the arrest of 4 people residing in Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt, one of whom wore the niqab to delude viewers of the clip that he was a woman.
She indicated that those involved admitted that the fake video was filmed in a street in the city of Gerga in Sohag, and that it was a representative scene broadcast on social media with the aim of achieving a financial return by increasing the viewership rate.
The first accused appeared in a video clip presented by the Ministry of Interior, admitting that he had broadcast the video, on his personal pages on Facebook and YouTube.
He also admitted that he wore the niqab to suggest to viewers that he was a woman, in order to get views and make profits by using one of the children to act, a tuk-tuk driver, and a fourth person who filmed the scene.
It is noteworthy that this video clip has been widely spread over the past few days, under the title “The Pin Shake”, causing panic among many Egyptians.
