The Alexandria Appeals Court decided on Tuesday to begin the trial of the defendant facing charges of slaughtering a Coptic alcohol merchant next February. The trial will be held at the Alexandria Criminal Court, where the defendant faces charges of first premeditated murder. Investigations revealed that the accused man, named Adel Soliman, confessed that he deliberately slaughtered the Coptic alcohol merchant named Youssef Lamaei while sitting in front of his store in Sidi Beshr in Alexandria. “He [the defendant] clearly admitted that he intended to kill the store’s owner in retaliation to his [the store’s owner] business selling alcohol,” Egy News reported. The murder occurred when Youssef Lamaei, a Coptic alcohol merchant in the suburb of Sidi Beshr in Alexandria, was murdered by an unidentified man while he sat in front of his store.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 18, 2017 16:33 UTC