The referral order issued by the Egyptian Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed that “the accused, Bahaa Kishk, an imprisoned architectural supervisor, Muhammad Fathi (fugitive) and Muhammad Marjan El-Gohary (fugitive) took over, between 2012 and 2019, the leadership of a terrorist group inside and outside Egypt.”
The referral order clarified that the group “aims to use force, violence, threat and intimidation for the purpose of disturbing public order, endangering the safety, interests and security of society, harming individuals and sowing terror among them, endangering their lives and their freedoms, their public and private rights and their security, and other freedoms and rights guaranteed by the constitution and law, and harming national unity, social peace and national security, preventing and obstructing public authorities and government interests from carrying out their work, and obstructing the application of the provisions of the constitution and laws.”
He added that the defendants “assumed leadership in the group called (Al-Murabitoun), which calls for the infidelity of the ruler and the hypothesis of disobeying him, changing the regime by force, attacking members of the armed forces and the police and their facilities, shedding the blood of Christians, extorting their money, property, places of worship, and targeting public facilities.”
He also pointed out that “terrorism was one of the means used by this group to achieve and implement its criminal purposes, as indicated in the investigations.”
The referral order added that the defendants “committed a crime of financing terrorism, financing a terrorist group and a terrorist act, by collecting, receiving, possessing, supplying, transporting and providing weapons, ammunition, explosives, missions and materials for the terrorist group with the intention of using them in committing terrorist crimes as indicated in the investigations.”
He added that the defendants, “as Egyptians, joined an armed group based outside Egypt, which uses terrorism, military training, teaching martial arts and combat methods as means to achieve its purposes in committing terrorist crimes, and preparing for it by joining the group (Al-Qaeda) in the State of Libya, and they received military training.”
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