CAIRO – 28 June 2021: Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy and his accompanying delegation, returned Cairo, Sunday with the 114 antiquities that had been looted and smuggled to France, ordering a technical team of the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry to check them. In a statement, the Public Prosecution said its members supervised the completion of the procedures of shipping the looted artifacts. A French man and two Egyptians involved in the smuggling of the artifacts were arrested after cooperation with the French judicial authorities. On Wednesday, Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy announced retrieving, 114 looted antiquities that were smuggled to France, as part of the joint investigations launched by Egypt’s Prosecution and the French judicial authorities. The joint investigations managed to stop all attempts for selling the Egyption smuggled antiquities.
