Horror in Maadi

The famous quiet Maadi suburb in Egypt is famous for its gardens ,villas, foreign communities and above all the Ambassadors' residences,for example we got the American Ambassador residence and even more important the Israeli Ambassador residence
It is well known that for the sake of the Israeli Ambassador the traffic movements in the Maadi streets are changed frequently without further notice to make it a hell to the people who live in his neighborhood ,I used to know someof them in the University.
Maadi which is located in Cairo , was at first a high class area , full of foreign communities who moved to it as the Zamalak was already full ,so they had to move to a new quiet beautiful place with a wonderful Nile view and far some how from the rest of croweded Cairo
And they weren't alone ,high class Egyptians joined them, any how I am not going to tell you the history of Maadi here ,you can find information about it in Maadi online and also here and there
The only thing I say further about it as a Suburb that now for the old Maadi people it is divided to the old Maadi of villas and new Maadi of long high ugly buildings and in between the popular working class populated area
The old Maadi became a mixture of high class ,middle class and foreign communities , at least that what I know from my experience there ,I got relatives living there ,some of them are living there since the time of the king and I also visited the new Maadi area, and went by mistake to the popular area of ashwakii building and got lost there
Anyway Maadi is very quiet area , and beautiful to the level that creeps you and makes me scare to walk alone in those avenues and side way streets with gardens even in the morning , I mean it is too damn quiet , no one is walking. I once was walking in a quiet beautiful street with my aunt and we found a mother and a kid in about 3 years old riding his tricycle ,they were foreigners and they looked to us in a surprise as if they didn't imagine to find some one walking in that street in the morning!!
This quiet characteristic and the fact that it is far from downtown busy populated Cairo made it the perfect setting for mysterious crime novels ,so it was n't a strange choice of Mahmoud Salam Egypt's no.1 author crime short novels to choose the Maadi suburb as the residence and adventure set of his teenage crime series "The 5 adventurers" ,TakhTakh ,Nousa,Mouhab and co. were and are still living in Maadi .
Now right now Maadi suburb is living a real nightmare with the existence of "The Maadi Killer"
Yes "The Maadi Killer" scares the people and makes them close their doors and order their girls to stay in home for fear that they might the new victims of "Maadi Slayer"
well The Slayer is the correct translation of to what the media and police called the man making all that public fear
But the problem is that the Slayer did n't slay anyone yet ,but they insist to call him so, you see all his 6 victims weren't killed , he attacked and injured them badly yes and they could have been killed yes , but he didn't kill anybody
You see that man , 100% very sick and needs a shrink , he attacks girls and women stabbing them with a knife in the lower part of their bodies; well this is the polite word for the conservatives "stabs them with a knife in their asses",
Of course it can be deadly and thank God that all his 6 victims made it , already they are all teenage girls except  the last victim who is in the30s or 40s.The previous 5 girls are all students in the preparatory and secondary stages ,they were all either going back to school or going to a private tutoring ,he attack them from behind , they couldn't see him well , already the nervous shock and the surprise plus the pain I think will make it difficult for anyone to remember the exact face of the attacker, yet the rumors spread like fire that the attacker is a dark young male , some even went to say that he is an African !!
The problem is in the characteristics those young girls said are too common , a young man in his 20s ,wearing casual , dark hair ,dark skin somehow , come on for God Sake this is too common , but I understand their shock ,Oh Allah I can't imagine my fear and shock if I found someone stalking me while walking and stabbing me in my ass !! It is terrible . Anyway the new thing ,the last victim , a nurse was attacked from the front and thus she had better chance to see his face ,despite my own thinking that her attacker may not be that slayer ,yet they consider him so from the panic , already here are the descriptions that were distributed ,you can see it here
by the way that man's skatch is the first one to be distrubited since the Said Maharn of "The thief and dogs" sketches were distributed in the 1960s to all newspapers and magazines to warn people.Oh yes Mahfouz's novel is based upon true interesting story ,may be one day insh Allah I tell you the chronicles of that man who made Cairo don't sleep night in 1960
The danger of the case is that he seems to choose his victims randomly , the only common factor I found beside being girls in near age that they live in the same area
The case came to surface after the attacks took place earlier that month
well without studying psychiatry , this man got some complex towards ladies and sex is involved in it ,because the area he chooses to stab and wants to damage with his knife using his hand contains the women's sexual organ aka vagina ,already from reading crimes novels and watching crime detective TV series ,I know that using knife in a crime needs a lot of courage and personal hate and motives
By the way he doesn't walk behind girls , already he used a motorcycle in one of his attacks ,going so fast and attacking them with his knife ,I believe it can be a Swiss knife ,oh boy it is so terrible .
The question now where is the Police??
well the Egyptian police after a week of denial in the official newspapers in Al-Ahram , admitted that there is a mad man attacking the women's asses and they even gave a long number as a hotline , of course the number is too long and difficult for anyone to remember we don't have 1-800-Maadi Slayer
The Egyptian Police as I am reading sent extra-troops to Maadi suburbs not to mention the undercover detectives ,whom one of them was caught by the people of Maadi who suspected him as the slayer!!
The Egyptian Police I am sorry proved to be a failure case in protecting the inner security of the country ,in the past we didn't have such crazy horrible crimes ,in fact if we had also our share from crazy serial killers in the past but the police in the past was fast enough to catch them before reaching out to the media ,turning them to public fear icons like in our case
Not only that there is a belief in the public now that the police is going to arrest any guy and accuse him to be the slayer while he is not the real slayer referring to the famous Ban Mazaar scenario where they found some mentally sick person and accused him to of the carnage that happened in Mania ,yet thankfully the court found him innocent from all charges.
You want another proof , a living proof from the reality
Well one of our family members in Maadi ,from the elder of the family , very sweet and kind lady over  80s years ,I can't describe how kind and sweet she is ,the son of the gardener who worked for her and her late husband for decades stole a sum of money equal to 1500 E.P,already she is so sweet and kind , leaving all the doors and windows open ,and she lives alone since her husband death,her only son also lives in Maadi but as you know life makes anyone busy. The greedy boy took the opportunity she was in the kitchen and can't hear well ; went to her room and took at first 500 E.P then he went away yet she didn't notice that there was less money and he boldly came next day and worked and she treated him so kindly .Of course greed doesn't know that word of kindness and gratitude as that bastard came again and took the rest of the 1000 E.P from her room and left , of course this time our dear aunt discovered the theft and went crazy and she called the police
Of course they couldn't find the boy at first ,but he himself returned back to our aunt and gave her the money of course after being freaked to find an officer in the house , why do you think he returned back ??
Because someone told him that if you don't return back the money ,the police may catch you and it would be easy and they can accuse you of  being the slayer !! and so the boy came by himself after weeks ,and the police didn't find him except after the fear or the slayer mania that stroke Maadi
This example shows to what extent the police I am sorry became in the minds of the commoners
By the way the attacker or the slayer or the ass hunter doesn't strike in old Maadi , where My aunt lives , in the villas and gardens area
I am afraid the security in Egypt now is all concentrated on the security and the stability of the regime not the security and the stability of the society as it should be , all their activity ,the police and security is headed towards the political activities in Egypt ,criminalizing any opposed political peaceful activity leaving the criminal activities everywhere with no attention at all.
Maadi now as I read got 12,000 police soldiers and they put surveillance cameras every where ,yet they couldn't catch the man ,whom now they are speaking that they fear that he could have escaped to another place may be outside Cairo!!
I am sorry but the Parliament members must question the interior minister about that
I don't understand torturing innocent people by the confession of the interior ministry itself and killing them while leaving the crazy maniacs hunting down ladies whether from sexual harassments or ass hunting
Look I know very well there is overestimation from the media ,it is enough calling him a slayer while he didn't actually succeeded in killing anyone ,and I know very well that these incidents are being used very well by the regime to divert the public attention from the amendment changes,still they are dangerous
But still it is very important alert to what can happen in the future with the absence of the police as a result of running behind those who say no to the regime
Today he is in Maadi and Tomorrow he can be in Mohendessin

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