Al-Youm Al-Sabea TV broadcast special news coverage prepared by Ahmed Ismail and presented by Sarah Ismail, in which he reviewed the details of the captain’s case. Magdy Abdel Ghani Spreading false news, and practicing controversy and sorcery.
Ibrahim Qassem, head of the accidents department at Youm7, revealed in a telephone interview that “the charges against those accused of spreading false news, accusations of quackery, sorcery, and witchcraft against the player Moamen Zakaria“There is no direct punishment in the law for quackery and sorcery, but the perpetrator of these acts is tried on charges of fraud, and according to Article No. 336 of the Penal Code, the penalty period is imprisonment from 24 hours to 3 years.”
Ibrahim added: “The defendants face charges of spreading false news through social media, in which the punishment reaches imprisonment and a fine. As for the charge of defamation and broadcasting false news, the defendants defamed Captain Magdy Abdel Ghani, and the punishment here in this crime reaches imprisonment and a fine.”
Qassem confirmed: “The defendants confessed before the investigation authorities to fabricating the incident of finding witchcraft belonging to the player Moamen Zakaria, with detailed confessions before the investigation authorities, indicating that they buried the picture and the talisman in front of a cemetery belonging to the family of the player Magdy Abdel-Ghany in order to attribute the incident to him “because they are famous sports figures,” and to claim that they had been found. If they plant a cactus in front of the cemetery.”
He added: “During the investigations, the defendants filmed the circulating video clip and published it on social media sites with the aim of achieving the highest viewing rate in order to profit financially and then hand over the witchcraft works to the player Moamen Zakaria under the claim that they were witchcraft works, who in turn disposed of them, and confronting the rest of the defendants, they supported this.”