Egypt sentences six to prison over killing of Frenchman in police station
Cairo criminal court sentenced on Sunday six prison inmates to seven years in prison for the murder Frenchman Eric Lang while he was detained at a police station in 2013.
Lang was arrested in September 2013 for violating a curfew that had been imposed a month earlier and was taken to downtown Cairo’s Qasr El-Nile police station.
He was placed in the station’s holding cells after his arrest. It was in the same cells that Lang was later beaten to death.
The 49-year old French national had lived in Egypt for several years and was working as a French teacher in Cairo.
The verdict against the six convicts can still be appealed.
source: Ahram Online
