Two unemployed men held in Alexandria after video of hashish sales
Egypt's Interior Ministry said security services identified and arrested two unemployed men from eastern Alexandria after a social-media video complained that they were selling and using drugs in the street. Hashish and two mobile phones were found with them, both admitted holding the drugs for use and for sale, and the public prosecution opened an investigation.
🇪🇬 First Montazah police district, Alexandria · Egypt
Security services identified two men from a video on social media in which its
publisher complained that they were selling and using drugs on a street in
Alexandria Governorate, and arrested them.[1][2][3]Both arrested men are unemployed
and live in the First Montazah police district in eastern Alexandria.[1][3]A
quantity of hashish and two mobile phones were found with the two men.[1][3]A
Masrawy account of the Interior Ministry statement gives the same two arrests in
the First Montazah district and the same hashish and two phones found with them.[4]
The Interior Ministry said no formal complaints had been filed about the
incident before its security services acted on the video.[1]Questioned, the
two admitted the offence as shown in the video and said it happened on 30
October.[1][3]Both admitted holding drugs both for their own use and for sale,
and the public prosecution opened an investigation.[1]The Masrawy account
also reports that both admitted holding the drugs for use and for trafficking
and that the public prosecution took over the investigation.[4]
Police took the two men to complete the legal procedures after their arrest.[1][2]A Veto account says the two men were referred to the investigating
authorities after the legal procedures were taken against them.[5]
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The sources give no separate date for the arrests; 7 November 2026, when the ministry statement was republished, is used and the men said the filmed offence took place on 30 October.
No weight or street value was published for the hashish found with the two men, so no cannabis quantity or value is recorded.
The sources do not name the two men, give their ages, or say whether charges were filed; the public prosecution took over the investigation.
All accounts read reproduce the same Interior Ministry statement, and no independent reporting on the arrests was found.
This account describes both arrested men as unemployed residents of the First Montazah district and both as trafficking, unlike the recorded 30 October Alexandria street-video case, in which the filmed pair were a company employee and a delivery worker and a third man was the supplier.
The Sada El Arab page, like the Masrawy account, gives no weight for the hashish found with the two men and no value estimate.
The page gives 30 October only as the date the two men said they committed the offence, and no separate date for their arrest.
Security agencies in El-Khusus, Qalyubia, detained 11 people in a campaign launched after social-media posts about drug dealing. Officers said the suspects were carrying hashish together with heroin, ice and powdered drugs.
Cairo detectives arrested two unemployed men in El-Marg with 37 slabs of hashish, a shotgun and cartridges after a tip that they were distributing the drug. The two admitted holding the hashish to sell it.
Luxor police arrested four men accused of stealing motorcycles and hiding them in Al-Zanaqta, recovering five bikes. Officers also seized hashish of unstated weight and half a kilogram of shabu, and prosecutors ordered the suspects held for four days.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns tested 1,045 drivers in 24 hours and 44 were positive for narcotics use, with no substance named. A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road tested 156 drivers, reported seven positives and detained seven people wanted under nine court rulings.