From AP:
Egypt’s prosecutor general on Wednesday ordered the arrest of three police officers on charges of murder for their involvement in the death of a man who died after plunging from a four-story balcony, a police official said.
Nasser Sadiq Gadallah’s family said he was thrown to his death by a group of police officers who burst into his apartment early Tuesday morning, but police said he fell while trying to leap from one balcony to another.
Along with the three officers ordered arrested, four other officers also were being investigated, said the police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
Gadallah’s family alleges that police broke into the apartment and demanded he withdraw a complaint 39-year-old plumber had filed against one of their colleagues for stealing money from him about week before. When he refused, they threw him off the balcony, the family said Wednesday.
This sounds similar to the 1969 Guiseppe Pinelli case in Italy, in which police, who were interrogating Pinelli about a bombing, threw him to his death from a police station window, then tried to cover it up as a suicide. (It turned out that the bombing had been carried out by neo-fascists.) These events were the basis for Dario Fo’s hugely successful 1970 satirical play, “Accidental Death of an Anarchist”.
Exactly!! This is my favorite play by Fo, together with “Can’t Pay.. Won’t Pay.”
By the way, there was another similar incident that happened in Maadi last year:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080513025124/http://www.masrawy.com/news/2006/egypt/politics/september/04/viola.aspx