After an old Coptic Christian woman was stripped off and dragged along the streets of the Egyptian city of Minya as hundreds of people watched, the case was closed for lack of evidence.
The case dates back to May 2016 when she was attacked amid clashes over a claimed love affair involving a Christian man and a Muslim woman from the Karm village in Minya. The Muslim wife assured later that her former husband is behind such rumors in order to blackmail her. However, the violence attacks against Christians in the village led to the torching of a number of houses belonging to Coptic Christians as well as attacking the old woman and her daughter in law.
I watched a TV report about the case of eyewitnesses in the village who witnessed those events. A man claimed that Soaad Thabet decided to take off her clothes on her own, and that she was never attacked by people in the village. The same person assured that young Muslim men carried out the attack and that older Muslims rebuked them! An old woman interrupted him saying that she covered Soaad! She repeated it twice and said: “enough talking!” This means that Soaad was nude at that time, but no one thought that she may have taken off her clothes among the mobs because it was very hot at that time! I hope that justice is achieved in Egypt before it is too late.
