The Egyptian Ministry of Interior published the details of the robbery of an antiques museum at Sohag University in the south of the country on Monday night, following the case’s widespread unrest across Egypt.
The incident began when Sohag University informed the second police department that some of its workers had been caught taking artefacts from the college of antiquities museum on campus.
The perpetrators of the incident were identified as four students, including the father of one of the perpetrators, who were also students at the same university. The ministry added that after the legalisation of the procedures, the perpetrators were apprehended and had 59 artefacts seized by the museum.
In front of the defendants, they admitted to the crime. One of them decided to collaborate with another student to steal the museum’s contents in an effort to become wealthy. They prepared a “iron machine” and travelled to the university. One of them blocked the camera’s view until the other was able to open the museum door. They then jointly took the artefacts and placed them in a bag and some plastic bags. The inside statement states.
She also mentioned how one of the students asked a colleague to bring her car so she could transfer the stolen items and hide them with one of the fathers in order to prepare them for sale.
While the institution released a statement about it, the incident had caused significant unrest in Egypt.
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The President of Sohag University, Mustafa Abdel-Khaleq, made the decision to stop the security guards assigned to the building and refer them for an immediate investigation. He also decided to refer the Dean of the Faculty of Antiquities’ actions to an investigation in front of a professor from the Faculty of Law, the Director General of the General Administration of University Security, and the Secretary of Al-Ahada in the store.
The university’s president announced that a special committee had been formed to create a comprehensive inventory of the store’s stock. He also gave the university’s legal affairs department the go-ahead to launch thorough investigations with the campus security team and all personnel.
A full Egyptian museum was stolen, and the identity of the criminals shocked everyone.
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