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Thursday, 28 July 2016

Foreign Ministry investigating death of Egyptian in German custody, Germany says no evidence of wrongdoing

The Foreign Ministry is looking into the death of an Egyptian who died while in police custody in Germany, demanding a swift probe by German authorities into the incident, according to a statement from the ministry on Tuesday. Twenty-two-year-old Mohammed Abdel Fattah’s father reported to a “privately-owned TV channel” that his son was tortured to death by German officers in the city of Essen, according to Ahram Online. German authorities confirmed the man was indeed jailed and had died, adding that they were investigating the matter and would inform Cairo of their findings. The German embassy in Cairo on Wednesday said there was no evidence of a criminal act in Abdel Fattah’s death. The embassy made no mention of Abdel Fattah being detained by police, only that he died in a hospital in Essen.

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