The judge of the “Brotherhood Escape” on the anniversary of June 30 reveals the scenes of the plot
Although 8 years have passed since the June 30 revolution, Egypt still remembers Judge Khaled Mahjoub who unlocked the mystery of the prisoners escape and set the scene for an uprising against the Brotherhood.
Mahjoub, the head of the Ismaili Appeals Court prior to the revolution, was handling the escape of prisoners from the Wadi Natroun Prison during the January 2011 revolution. He ordered that all those who escaped be referred to the public prosecution, and ordered the arrest of Brotherhood leaders, foremost among them former President Mohamed Morsi.
Threats
Mahjoub opened his heart to “Al-Ain Al-News” and recalled the difficult moments he has lived since taking over the case months before the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. He said, “I lived through difficult days after I started reviewing the case papers and summoning the prison warden and other witnesses to find out the truth about what happened during the prisoners’ escape from Wadi Al-Natroun Prison.”
“I have come a long way in studying the case and I have received a message from an unknown person threatening me with a clear wording saying: Take care of your children and do not continue what you are doing in the case of Wadi Al-Natroun.”
“I ignored the matter and proceeded to take legal measures against this person to reveal him,” he said. “I decided to proceed with the case according to the oath I took on the day of taking the stand.”
Truth
“Day after day.. The truth is unfolding in front of me,” the Egyptian judge said. “It is that foreign elements belonging to terrorist organizations were working during the January 25 revolution in Egypt to break into prisons and were in direct contact with Brotherhood members inside the prison.”
“I was then confronted with the law on political immunity of the President of the Republic, which prevents Morsi’s trial, and ordered the arrest of all prisoners who escaped from prison in this incident, including senior leaders of the Brotherhood, days before the June 30 revolution,” he said, adding that he had asked the prosecution “to investigate these leaders and the then President of the Republic.”
Mahjoub said that the threats did not stop after he ordered all the accused Brotherhood members and their assistants to be referred to the public prosecutor and arrested, prompting them to launch media attacks against me a few days after Morsi’s ouster.
He said he received “more than one death threat, and in fact my parents’ house in my hometown of Helwan in Cairo was attacked and attempted to blow up”.
“I have accepted my conscience and dealt with the case at the right time like any other case, and I have judged it with justice according to the papers and the law, and I have allowed all the defendants at this time to take all legal measures in accordance with the constitutional rules before deciding to refer them to the Public Prosecution, which has then referred the case to the Criminal Court on charges of espionage and escape from Wadi Natroun prison,” he said.
“I do not fear any public or veiled threats against me from the group, because the oath I took on the day of taking the judicial stand was logical for me to give my trusts to their people, which I did,” he said.
