Saturday 10/January/2026 – 03:40 AM
The Public Prosecution published its case in Case No. 8047 of 2025, a second misdemeanor, Nasr City, registered under No. 1085 of 2025, Investigation Investigation, known in the media as Swimmer YoussefThe Public Prosecutor, Counselor Mohamed Shawqi, had ordered the defendants to be referred to criminal trial on charges of committing manslaughter and endangering the lives of children.
The Public Prosecution in the drowning case of swimmer Youssef
During his plea, the representative of the Public Prosecution described the details of the crime committed by the defendants, and said, First: The swimming federation, the council sitting in its ivory tower, the directors disavowing in the arena of death, the board of directors, the captains of the sinking ship, are the first accused in the death of Youssef and the first accused of endangering the lives of more than 13,000 children.
He continued: Secondly, the members of the championship competitions committee, morning and evening, Muhammad Hassan Haroun, and Ibrahim Nabil Hussein, are the negligent civilian leaders, and thirdly: the general referee and the rescue crew, the guards sleeping on the walls of life. The general referee, Kamal Muhammad Musa, is the accused, who is the sleeping mind of the tournament. He put time before safety and taking action on the human being and left the rescuers with a mission that he did not follow up on. He is accused of delegating the trust to someone who does not guarantee its performance.
He added: The two rescuers, Yahya Ali Farhat and Youssef Muhammad Abdel Jalil, were the two closed eyes over the drowning body. They were content to be present without following up, and to stand without interfering. They stood at the end point, and the evidence proves that they did not get down, did not examine, and did not wipe the bottom of the pool after the end of Youssef’s race.
As for the rescuers’ supervisor, Wael Hassan Omar, he is the absent field official. The absence of his actual supervision left the aforementioned rescuers without guidance and without supervision. If he had been performing his role, he would have imposed a strict protocol on his rescuers for visual and physical scanning after each race. He would have followed their performance. Likewise, negligence piled upon negligence until it was no longer an individual mistake and we would be faced with a crime of numbers and chaos.
It is noteworthy that the Nasr City Misdemeanor Court decided to postpone the trial of the defendants responsible for the drowning case of swimmer Youssef Mohamed, to the January 22 session, for review, while continuing their imprisonment.
