Cairo police hold driver in harassment video and find no drugs
Cairo police identified and detained a driver after a woman's viral complaint that he harassed her in the First Settlement and was using drugs in his car. He admitted the harassment, but the Interior Ministry said checks showed he neither possessed nor used drugs, and prosecutors ordered him held pending investigation.
🇪🇬 First Settlement (Al-Tagamoa Al-Awwal) police district, New Cairo, Cairo · Egypt
A woman employee who lives in the Marj police district complained to Cairo’s
First Settlement police station that a private-car driver had harassed her as
she walked along a street in a residential compound.[1]She filed the
complaint on 6 November 2026.[1]In the video post that circulated on social
media she said the driver was using drugs in his car while harassing her.[1]
The Interior Ministry said its investigation took up the circulated video post.[2]Police identified the car and its driver, a driver resident in Alexandria.[1]Questioned, he admitted the harassment.[2]The Interior Ministry said
checks showed he neither possessed nor used any drugs, contrary to the
circulated post.[3]The ministry’s statement, published by Youm7, gave the
same finding.[2]
The prosecution had him held on remand pending investigation and told police to
speed up inquiries into the case.[4]Prosecutors asked for the circulated
video to be examined.[4]They also ordered the car used in the incident
examined and any surveillance cameras around the scene checked.[4]The public
prosecution took over the investigation after the legal procedures were
completed.[1]
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The accused after his arrest, in the photo published with the report. Photo: Youm7Photo details
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The sources name only narcotic substances in general; no drug, weight or value is recorded because nothing was found on the driver.
The arrest date is not given; 6 November 2026 is the date of the woman's complaint and is used as the incident date.
The length of the detention ordered on 11 November is not reported.
No charge sheet has been published and no trial date is known; the case is at the investigation stage.
All the accounts reproduce the same Interior Ministry statement.
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