https://arabawy.org/1927/egypts-prosecutor-orders-police-officers-arrested-after-man-plunges-to-death-from-balcony/ Hossam el-Hamalawy Fri, 25 Dec 2020 09:35:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://arabawy.org/1927/egypts-prosecutor-orders-police-officers-arrested-after-man-plunges-to-death-from-balcony/#comment-1614 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:33:44 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/08/09/egypts-prosecutor-orders-police-officers-arrested-after-man-plunges-to-death-from-balcony/#comment-1614 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

]]> https://arabawy.org/1927/egypts-prosecutor-orders-police-officers-arrested-after-man-plunges-to-death-from-balcony/#comment-1613 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:17:26 +0000 http://arabist.net/arabawy/2007/08/09/egypts-prosecutor-orders-police-officers-arrested-after-man-plunges-to-death-from-balcony/#comment-1613 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”.

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