Judge Moataz Khafagy, currently presiding over a major trial involving top Muslim Brotherhood leaders, has survived a bomb attack outside of his residence in Helwan, south Cairo.
He told Al-Masry Al-Youm that he was woken up on Sunday by the sound of three explosions, which damaged the front of the house, and the cars belonging to him and his son.
One of the guards managed to arrest one of the perpetrators, handing him over to the police.
The judge accused Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) of carrying out the attack, explaining that he had been handling a trial involving the group’s members.
Ajnad Misr, which Egyptian security authorities consider to be a Muslim Brotherhood-run terrorist group, had claimed responsibility for a number of bombings in Cairo over the past year.
Khafagy is also chairing the trial of Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 16 others over charges of orchestrating violence which killed twelve Brotherhood opponents outside the group’s headquarters in Cairo in June 2013.
Late February, Khafagy sentenced Badie and twelve other Brotherhood leaderships to life imprisonment, while four others received death sentences.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
