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Copts United reveals the motives behind the Salafist attack on Notre Dame school…

Girgis Bushra

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Thursday ,08 March 2012

Copts United reveals the motives behind the Salafist attack on Notre Dame school…

Eng. Melad Kamel Garas, owner of Notre Dame school in Aswan said to Copts United, that those who attacked the school in the beginning were of Salafies and religious groups claiming that a church is being built at the school. Garas said there is a place in front of the school for nuns to rest, and during building it, Salafies and Islamist groups said that the building is going to be a church, and spread so through the microphones of the mosques, and they started attacking the place. So, the nuns panicked as they were expelled, and some of them were injured and others fainted. After that, they expelled the security men of the school, and locked the building with chains and locks and took the keys. Garas said that the investigations showed that the building is not a church, and that it is legally constructed after obtaining a license. The owner of the school showed that they received a threat of burning the school and the Christians inside it. 277 students were absent today because of the panic they experienced yesterday when the Salafies and the thugs broke the security cameras outside the school while calling the Christians: Jews and infidels. 

Garas said that he had contacted the Director of Security of Aswan but he replied rudely and hang up on him after he told him to report the police. An employee of his said that a number of Salafies want to burn the school as well as some of his projects. 
In the police station, policemen refused to make a report at the beginning and afterwards they made one, but gave him no number for the report (which makes it useless)! That’s why he accused the governor of Aswan Mustafa al-Sayed and director of security and mayor of Abu Rish village and a former member of the Shura Council of complicity in the crime. 
Human rights activist, Markos Shawki Hanna, called for an investigation and a trial, as well as intervening speedily to bring safety back and protecting the students and teachers of the school.