Cairo, Egypt – In one of the most horrific crimes to have occurred in Ismailia Governorate, a 13-year-old boy stands before investigators, recounting the details of a crime that defies all imagination and reason.
The crime mixed innocence with brutality, play with blood. The child, Youssef Ayman, should be in school, not in the dock.
The accused’s confessions
He confessed before the Public Prosecution, saying in a trembling voice: “I killed him and cut him into six pieces… and I ate a piece of it, and it tasted like breaded meat.”
Words not from a child, but from a mind polluted by violence that only found its way into childhood through a phone screen.
Intensive investigations into the incident
Investigations revealed that the crime began with a simple dispute between him and his 12-year-old colleague and friend, Mohamed Ahmed, which instantly turned into a bloody scene straight out of a foreign movie.
In it, the perpetrator used an electric saw to reenact a scene he had witnessed, unaware that he was transporting it to reality.
Security forces found the victim’s remains inside a school bag near a shopping mall, while surveillance cameras showed that the victim had entered the defendant’s home and never left.
A search of the house revealed a blood-stained sheet and the murder weapon, completing the story of the disaster that shocked the public.
Investigations confirmed that the child suffered from severe family and psychological distress, making him more vulnerable to the violence he was exposed to online.
Legal procedures
The Public Prosecution ordered him to be referred to a forensic psychiatrist to determine the extent of his mental health.
The case is no longer an ordinary murder, but a warning bell ringing loudly in the face of an entire society.
To what extent have we left our children at the mercy of content that instills violence in them instead of dreams?
The Ismailia tragedy is not only in what happened… but in what may happen again if we do not pay attention.
