Monday, October 23, 2023

Egypt terror attack: 'There were dozens of soldiers, not one came to help'

Mor Cohen-Shamli, the wide of Alon, who was murdered two weeks ago in a terror attack in Egypt, spoke about the fiasco at the scene of the murder and the autopsy that was performed on her husband without her permission.

"We chose an organized group trip so it would be safer," she told Kan Reshet Bet. "We had a day left to the trip. The Egyptians decided to increase our security. We said it would make us stand out, but they insisted that it was the correct thing."

She pointed out that "the affair was very strange, we got no help. I ran and saw him lying on the floor - I understood he was dead. All around, they were looking at us, they filmed us, but no one came to help us. There were dozens of soldiers there.

"I was abused at the hospital, they lied to me that he was alive," Cohen-Shamli recounted. "They locked him in a one-sided room. They told me, 'If you drink water, we'll take you to your husband,' and they didn't take me. After the fact, I understood that they performed an autopsy without my permission."

She spoke about her husband: "Anything I say doesn't do justice to his personality. He was a magical individual, he always put everyone else first. He was hard-working, and everything he did in life was with optimism. You would never hear him complain, he was funny and sensitive."

The police officer who shot and killed two Israeli tourists in Alexandria was neutralized. He apparently was supposed to protecting the group of tourists.