Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal Eddin wants policemen suspected in assaulting Transportation Ministry workers at Cairo rail station Wednesday to be apprehended and interrogated.
"The police body will not gloss over any transgressor as it has embarked upon a new era that respects the citizen and protect his freedoms," Gamal Eddin said in a statement released Thursday.
Dozens of low-ranking police officers allegedly assaulted a number of railway inspectors and the deputy head of the railway authority, Gamal Dewidar, Wednesday at noon and locked them in an office for an hour, railway authority head Mostafa Qenawy said. The officers had gotten on Aswan-bound train number 980 and refused to pay when train inspectors asked to see their tickets. The police reportedly beat the inspectors following an argument.
Gamal Eddin demanded that the results of the interrogation be submitted to him as soon as the questioning is completed.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
