Khaberni - The investigative authorities in Egypt have issued a decision to lift the names of a group of witnesses in the case, known in the media as "Fairmont crime", off the travel ban lists and monitor arrivals.
This decision comes within the framework of the legal reviews of the legal statuses of all parties involved in the case, which has occupied the Egyptian public opinion for a long time, and after completing all the necessary investigative procedures related to these witnesses.
The events of the case date back to an incident of assault on a girl inside the "Fairmont Nile City" hotel in Cairo in the year 201, and it is the case that the public prosecutor has been investigating over the years, which included a list of accusations and testimonies of a number of characters.
According to the latest decision, the witnesses included in the decision are now able to move and travel normally, as the Passport and Immigration Authority was officially notified of the decision to lift the ban for implementation across all ports and airports.
Egyptian media reported that the investigations went through two stages, the first of which was the Public Prosecutor's monitoring at the end of July 2020 of the information circulated about the incident on social media and the differing opinions about it between condemning the accused and claiming the incident was not true, then listening to the victim and one witness who was present in the suite on the night of the incident, and 39 witnesses, some of whom saw seconds of a video of the incident in a time period close to its occurrence, and others heard about it and about the clip without watching it and knew little about its circumstances, in addition to hotel officials, forensic doctors, and police officers who conducted investigations around the incident.
The media mentioned that the public prosecution received photographic images of the bare body of a girl in which her face and no one else appears, and attributed to the video clip of the incident from which those images were captured.
