The New Cairo Misdemeanor Court will shortly consider the case of the artist Amr Diab assaulting the young man Saad Osama, known in the media as the one responsible for the incident of being slapped by the artist Amr Diab in New Cairo.
The New Cairo Prosecution decided to refer both the artist Amr Diab and the young man Saad M. The perpetrator of the slapping incident was taken to the misdemeanor court.
The New Cairo Prosecution heard the statements of the artist Amr Diab regarding the incident of assaulting a young man at a party in a hotel in Cairo.
Amr Diab
Earlier, the investigation authorities heard the statements of the young man responsible for the incident of being slapped by the artist Amr Diab during a party, and he confirmed in the investigations that he was invited by the owner of the party, and during that he asked the artist Al-Hadaba to take a souvenir photo with him.
The young man confirmed in the Public Prosecution’s investigations that I took out my mobile phone and while taking a picture with the artist Amr Diab, he slapped me in the face and shouted at me in front of the guests.
The Public Prosecution ordered the examination of the video circulating of the moment the artist Amr Diab assaulted the young man during a party in a Cairo hotel. It also ordered the seizure of the video of the assault on the young man during a party in Cairo.
A security source revealed that the artist Amr Diab’s lawyer filed a report against a young man accusing him of assaulting his client in New Cairo.
The source explained that the artist Amr Diab’s lawyer filed a report against a young man stating that the latter assaulted his client after he tried to take selfies with him at a party inside a hotel in Cairo.
Sada El Balad website obtained the text of the artist Amr Diab’s statements regarding the incident of slapping a young man in the face inside a hotel in New Cairo.
The text of Amr Diab’s statements was as follows:
Q: What is your name?
A: My name is Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Aziz Diab, age 63, a singer residing in Giza.
Q: What do you say about what is attributed to you, that you are accused of slapping the victim/Saad Osama?
On his face without causing injury as shown in the investigations?
A: It didn’t happen
Q: What happened then, and what were the circumstances of this incident?
A: I said all of what happened in the investigation before, and that the person who held me, pulled me tightly by the side, and pinched me while I was celebrating the wedding ceremony on 6/7/2024 at the JW Marriott Hotel, First Settlement, and when I felt that he was assaulting me, I hit him with my hands, and I did not know where the blow came from. When the video was posted on social media and I saw the blow hit my face, this was a natural reaction because he held me tight by my side, and he was the one who… He provoked me in his own way after I imagined him with me. He was the one who started assaulting me in the first place, and the reason I finished my part at the wedding was because he caused me physical harm, because he grabbed me from my side forcefully, pinched me, and defamed me on social media sites, and I informed the lawyer to file a report against him, and that’s all. What happened?
Q: When and where did this happen?
A: The incident occurred on 6/7/2024 at the JW Marriott Hotel, First Settlement
Q: What is the reason and occasion for your presence in the aforementioned time and place?
A: I was hosting a wedding at the hotel.
Q: In front of whom did this happen?
A: In front of the wedding guests.
Q: What is the initiative of your meeting with the so-called Saad Osama Saad when this incident occurs?
H: I was hosting a wedding at the JW Marriott Hotel, and I was surprised when this person asked me to take a photo with me.
Q: What is your relationship with the aforementioned person, and are there any disagreements between you?
A: I don’t know and we have no relationship.
Q: What do you say about what the so-called Saad Osama Saad decided and testified to as evidence, and through investigations, you explain his statements to him in detail?
A: What happened, I said in the investigations.
Q: What do you say about what Brigadier General Wael Taha Abdel Latif, Head of Hotel Investigations in the Tourism and Antiquities Sector, testified to, which we described to him in detail?
H: What happened I said in the investigation.
Q: What do you say about what was added above, that the so-called Saad Osama Saad was the one who took the initiative to approach you to take a souvenir photo with you?
A: What happened, I said in the investigations.
Q: Are you accused of slapping the victim, Saad Osama Saad Abdel-Aty, in the face without causing any injury to him as shown in the investigations?
A: It didn’t happen
Q: Do you have anything else to say?
A: No.
