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188 suspects referred to criminal court over breaking into Kerdasa police station

Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat referred 188 suspects to Giza Criminal Court, as investigations showed their involvement in breaking into Kerdasa police station and killing policemen there, in the aftermath of the Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-in dispersals in mid-August.
 
143 suspects were remanded into custody pending investigations and were ordered to be referred to trial, while the other 45 runaway suspects were ordered to be arrested.
 
Security troops raided Kerdasa area, a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood in September when Major General Nabil Farrag, deputy Giza security chief, was killed.
 
 
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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