Security and Crime

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  • Interior Ministry adopts new strategy to foil terrorist operations - official

    Date: 2019-02-04 12:50:43 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:41 - ID:7788445

    CAIRO, Feb 4 (MENA) - Assistant Interior Minister and head of the Police Academy Ahmed Ibrahim said on Monday the Interior Ministry has adopted a new strategy to foil terrorist operations and hunt down criminals, in a move meant to preserve ....

  • Infiltration attempt by 274 persons to Libya foiled

    Date: 2019-02-03 17:31:27 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:75 - ID:7787146

    MARSA MATROUH, Feb 3 (MENA) - Matrouh security forces thwarted on Sunday a bid by 274 persons to infiltrate into Libya via desert routes in Salloum border crossing. The infiltrators were present in a desert area, where civilians are not allowed ....

  • Interior Ministry: 82 hotbeds stormed, 18 gangs arrested in week

    Date: 2019-02-02 14:46:05 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:35 - ID:7785649

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) – Security forces stormed 82 criminal hotbeds and arrested 18 gangs as part of their crackdown against outlaws nationwide over the past week, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The security operations also ....

  • ACA: 3 former officials in Matrouh arrested for embezzling EGP 500 mln

    Date: 2019-01-31 10:00:54 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:18 - ID:7782660

    CAIRO, Jan 31 (MENA) - The Administrative Control Authority (ACA) on Thursday arrested three former Matrouh governorate officials for embezzling EGP 500,000 million. The three were held over charges of facilitating the embezzlement of public ....

  • Prosecution orders 25 defendants to be held over terrorism charges

    Date: 2019-01-30 19:07:40 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:64 - ID:7782140

    CAIRO, Jan 30 (MENA) – The Public Prosecution ordered 25 defendants to be held of 15 days pending investigations into terrorism-linked charges. They are accused of plotting for violence acts in January and February and joining an outlawed group ....

  • Interior ministry: 54 MB members arrested over plots to carry out hostile acts

    Date: 2019-01-29 15:44:25 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:72 - ID:7780263

    CAIRO, Jan 29 (MENA) - Fifty-four members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group were arrested Tuesday over forming an online group to carry out hostile acts against the state. In a statement, the ministry said the arrestees received orders ....

  • Trial of 15 students charged with joining Daesh delayed to Feb. 19

    Date: 2019-01-28 11:22:03 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:36 - ID:7777803

    CAIRO, Jan 28 (MENA) - The Giza Criminal Court on Monday decided to adjourn till February 19, the trial of 15 students, who are accused of joining Daesh terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, and receiving combat training to commit hostile acts inside ....

  • Fugitive arrested in Minya

    Date: 2019-01-26 16:00:34 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:43 - ID:7775417

    CAIRO, Jan 26 (MENA) – Security forces in Minya arrested on Saturday a fugitive, who was sentenced to 17 years in jail over storming a police station and the administrative prosecution directorate in Dir Mawas city in the Upper Egyptian ....

  • Muslim man killed while defending Coptic woman in Cairo

    Date: 2019-01-23 17:56:41 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:79 - ID:7771596

    CAIRO, Jan 23 (MENA) - A Muslim ironing man was killed on Wednesday while he was defending a Coptic woman from harassment in Cairo, said police. The victim, 36, was stabbed to death by a decorator, who harassed the 30-year-old Coptic housewife in ....

  • Interior Min: 5 MB terrorists killed in Qalyoubia

    Date: 2019-01-22 13:38:59 GMT - Egypt - Security and Crime - SN:62 - ID:7769491

    CAIRO, Jan 22 (MENA) - Five Muslim Brotherhood (MB) terrorists, all members of one cell in Qalyoubia Governorate, were killed, the Ministry of Interior said Tuesday. The terrorists were planning to launch a series of terror attacks on vital ....

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