The Damanhour Criminal Court, Second District, sitting in the Itay al-Baroud District Court, decided to postpone the first hearing of the first revenge case between the Shawwalha tribe, as a result of which Fayez was killed. After concluding a customary reconciliation session in June 2025 until the session of next April 1, at the request of the defendants’ defense.
This crime was followed by the killing of two other people out of revenge against the relatives of the accused as they left a wedding party in the Dalingat Center in the following month, July 2025, in the Dalingat Center, which ended with the killing of the two cousins, Muhammad. M, and Amer. A. All the defendants and victims in the two cases belong to the same “Shawalha” tribe.
The first case was heard by the Second Circuit, headed by Counselor Hassan Muhammad Hassan Saleh, and the membership of Counselors Ahmed Fathi Abdel-Mu’tal, Faisal Muhammad Jad Al-Banna, and Abdel Hamid Hamid Tuaimah.
Counselor Hashim Ibrahim, Attorney General of the South Damanhour Prosecution Office, referred 6 defendants in the case, including 3 detainees and 3 fugitives, to the Criminal Court, while continuing to imprison the detained defendants, and arresting and bringing the fugitive defendants.
6 defendants were charged: Muhammad. He is “imprisoned”, his brother Ahmed is “on the run”, and Hani. A. “trapped” and his brothers Hussein “trapped”, Abdel Salam “fared”, and Riyad “fared”.
The South Damanhour Public Prosecution charged the first to fifth defendants with killing the victim, Fayez. E., and his name is Fawzi, intentionally, with premeditation, that they had the intention and were determined to kill him and prepared for that purpose firearms, white weapons, and tools.
The prosecution explained that the defendants lurked for the victim in the place from which they were previously certain he would pass and waited for his arrival, and as soon as they overpowered him, they fired a barrage of bullets in their possession with the intention of taking his life, causing injuries to various parts of his body described in the anatomical report, which claimed his life.
She added that the sixth defendant participated through assistance and agreement with the other five defendants to commit the crime subject to the previous accusation, and provided them with the firearms and ammunition used to commit the incident, and the crime occurred based on this agreement and assistance.
The prosecution charged all defendants with attempted murder of the brother of the dead man, called Abdul Fadil. Premeditated and premeditated, they had the intention and were determined to kill him with the same weapons with which they killed his brother. The second accused struck several blows at the same place where his brother was killed, and the third accused pursued him by firing several bullets at him, intending to take his life, but their goal was defeated because the bullets were off target and the victim rushed to get treatment.
The Public Prosecution charged the defendants with possessing an unlicensed or possessed automatic rifle, two unlicensed firearms and ammunition used in those weapons, as well as bladed weapons (a knife and a stick) that were used to assault people without legal justification.
The Dalangat District Prosecution’s investigations revealed a precedent of a dispute two years ago between the dead man, “Fayez A.,” and the first accused, Muhammad. F, because the dead man owned a plot of land jointly with another in El Alamein, and the first defendant paid money to his partner to expel him from the land to replace him and he was actually expelled.
The third accused, “Hani,” said that “Fayez” subsequently stole a spray machine from that land and placed it in his house, and problems developed between them, with “Muhammad F” jumping over the wall of Fayez’s house and photographing the spray motor inside the house. Fayez caught him, tied him to a pole, dressed him in women’s clothing, photographed him, and tied him to the pole in harem clothes.
The investigations added that the defendants followed the deceased’s itinerary during his exit from the conciliation session, as he was a customary arbitrator, and they intercepted his way and opened fire on him, “Fayez” and his brother, “Abdul Fadil,” which claimed his life and led to the injury of his brother.
