
The ministry of interior suspended on Wednesday police officer Ahmed Hosni from work as he is being interrogated of fatally shooting dead a man called Mohamed Abdel Rahman last Sunday.
Abdel Rahman was the owner of a small local cafĂ© in the village of Al-Haswa. While he was on shift on Sunday, police forces stormed into the cafe and started searching him and the cafeâs clients.
The ministry of interior said that the Hosni shot the victim âby mistakeâ while he was chasing some fugitives.
The killing was done by the officerâs handgun, according to UK based Human Rights Monitor which described the incident as another violation by Egyptian police against citizens.
So far the prosecution is investigating the incident but hasnât confronted the officer with the charge of murder. Sources from the victimâs family say that the police are pushing the narrative that the killing was done âby mistake.â
âThe prosecution hasnât taken any step to investigate the incidentâ Human Rights Monitor said, adding that the âsole choice of security personnel to deal with civilians is murder.â
Similar incidents of killing are rarely reported by state media or pro police talk shows. The Egyptian state refuses the argument that abuse is a systematic approach done by police officer, despite the increase of violations done by the controversial apparatus.
Police violence was one of the reasons leading to the major agitations that fueled the 25 January revolution.
The Egyptian parliament rarely discusses police violence in its sessions. The only time members of the post-revolutionary parliament discussed police abuse was when a member got into an argument as she was intervening to acquit her relative from a police station where he was accuse of assault.