The Heliopolis Court of Misdemeanor acquitted four Saturday on charges of attacking President Mohamed Morsy’s convoy, state-run Akhbar al-Youm reported.
The case stems from a sit-in organized in August to protest the attack on the border guards in Rafah and the Dahshur sectarian clashes. A number of protestors attacked Morsy’s convoy as it left the presidential palace.
The Attorney General had ordered Mahmoud Youssef, Ahmed Abdel Mongi, Ahmed al-Habashy and Nahed Ali Negm referred to the Heliopolis Court of Misdemeanors.
The defendants faced charges of crowding, cutting off Morsy’s convoy, chanting slogans hostile and abusive to his person, throwing stones and shoes at the convoy and destroying one of the convoy vehicles during its exit from the presidential palace.
The defendants denied attacking the presidential convoy.
According to the defense, the incident happened when a number of citizens went to the presidency’s complaint office, but the staff refused to accept their complaints.
The refusal prompted them to head to the presidential palace to express their opinion, when they were arrested without justification, the defense said.
