RIOTS IN EGYPT

Dr Samir Farak has not gone he hid for a few days now the people have been told he is only a figurehead
My story is based on what has been happening over the past 7 years here in luxor .
This story is one of injustice by the corrupt lawyers who as it turns out runs the judicial system here as I found out 12 months ago all the Judges here are corrupt and the reason I took my case out of the luxor supreme court to the Head of Islam Dr Sheihk Achmed Tayeb. So what I am about to say is all from personal experience and true stories I have been told about.
Over the next few weeks we are going to get a lot of horrific stories coming out of Egypt.
The reason why the people have been uprising is because they have had enough of the corruption and suppression that this regime held on its people,

Luxor had a governor called Dr Samir Farak, no one would or could say anything about this man not aloud anyway.
During the past few days all the riots in and around Luxor has been in connection with getting this man out of office they even torched his office at the first chance they had they say five thousand people had been displaced by him most without any compensation those that did get anything the highest sum paid was seventy five thousand Egyptian pound that’s at the rate of 8.egp to one £ sterling. Or 5.5 egp to one euro or $ , for those displaced from the houses that stood on the avenue of the sphinx the Eu gave this council 50 million euro for rehousing and as I wrote only a handful of people have received any kind of compensation. All the houses that came down in Karnak 2 years ago the people are still waiting for their money? So we had two points of rioting here in Luxor. The city itself Ie outside of my flat only a few places where vandalised by the mob anywhere that had money I.e. the Egyptian exchange and a few atm’s, the rest of the damage was done by the young vagabonds that have been living on the streets for the past twelve months these are the waifs and strays who have come from all over Egypt to beg from the tourists and making life hell for me in Luxor, the police ,, just like when the trouble started last Thursday disappear when any one needs them ,
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My first story actually sums up the police in general.
Two years ago When I lived in the village of Awameia. The area of the torched council office. I lived over what is called a coffee shop. Here there was seven young lads working in rotation serving tea bubble pipe cola etc, Mohamed the young lad in question worked all the hours he could around his collage hours. He had in two years saved enough money to buy himself a motorbike
3200egp, he did not smoke and saved most of his money. 3 weeks after he was the proud owner of his bike it was stolen while he was in work . The thief dragged the bike around the corner to his home , so he could work on disconnecting the ignition and putting a new one in, the drag marks where clearly visible as this is a dirt track to the back of the café that leads to a few mud houses, so They knew who the thief was but he has 3 brothers and so which one do they blame . So I asked Mohamed why not report the theft show them the drag marks, and hey presto you get your bike back, where the fuck do you live Mr Tony was his first words.
If I go to the police they put me in Jail for making a problem, where I say I get the money, not supposed to work in A coffee shop
, I said what, the police are always here smoking and drinking , and not only the bubble pipe from My flat on the roof I knew when the police where in by the smell of hashish wafting up. The next day the thief offered to get him his bike back for 1000egp. They the thief’s family thought I would help Mohamed out, I told him on yer bike, well go and have a walk. The offender was well know to the police even if Mohamed reported his bike stolen He would have had a hiding from the thief and the police, the police would have gone around to see the thief, and they would get half the value of the bike, the bike was last seen being used by a police officer, he had a new bike even kept the plates to go with it.
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The next story I wrote about 3 years ago . In the area of Awameia there is a lot of construction work going on first building was the supposed orphanage sunshine home , behind that there are a lot of council houses being built. During the construction of these blocks of flats I witnessed a lot of pilfering man and donkey with cart would show up at silly hours in the night these would take a few bags of cement or sand, but what I did notice was a boy carrying steel rebar’s into the corn field, not my business did not want to get involved so the theft of the rebar’s lasted for about two weeks before there was enough for the donkey and cart to take it away this happened in the evening just as the building site was closed for the weekend that being Thursday evening. We us users of the said coffee shop where given a load of verbal because one of the residents in our apartments had parked in our driveway and the donkey and cart laden with steel could not get through, then the donkey and cart could not negotiate the first bend in the lane so the father of the man in the last story offered him some rope to tie the steel up that was overhanging the cart buy at least 8ft even when bent into a u shape, the steel had already gauged some of the corner brickwork. A promise was made a bricklayer will turn up tomorrow to rebuild the corners damage and off the man went with his booty of rebar’s quickly followed by the Security guard who had just come to the café for a pot of tea , why you let him go with my steel by the time the little man had caught up with the thief he and his donkey had been arrested
. Next thing a few cops turned up at the café asking silly questions the story came out about the man helping the thief tie the steel two and two was put together and the cops made five ,so he was carted off , so was the guard, the father of the motorbike thief is a very hard working farmer keeps his whole family in food
Court sessions here can last well into the night for emergency cases like this, the kindly gentleman who borrowed the thief a rope got a thousand pound fine kept in jail till money was forthcoming , as it happened the bike thief from the last story has a wealthy; shall we say friend from Holland, but the poor guard had to pay 1000egp for aiding and abetting the steel thief. Most like was unless he was deaf and blind ,,, and as he worked for the Dr Samir Farak who was the builder of said property would get his fine paid and have to work it off in monthly instalments meaning there was another person indebted to the corrupt Doctor. The donkey was tied to the railings outside the police station until the 5000egp owners fine was paid in full that took 2 weeks and this poor donkey was stuck there in the blazing sun all day , gets a bit hot here at 50c plus the heat from the road tarmac .
So all in all a great outcome for cops and robbers,(the corrupt judges,)
This next story is not so nice as it involved a priest and his wife this happened 6 months ago,
Over the past 3 years I have been taking photos of the work being carried out on the avenue of the sphinx this is an area of aprox 3 kilometres in length all that remains today of the buildings on this line are a few places including a Presbyterian church and a Coptic church both have lost ground to the new avenue , the Coptic church had a school adjoining the building that had just been demolished the incident that followed was reported to me by my Lawyer on the night in question.
Dr samir farak gave his bully boys The secret police orders to get the people in the Coptic church out and there will be a few bulldozers ready to pull the church down, in went the bully boys just like the Gestapo of ww11 dragged the priest down a flight of stairs and fondled the priest’s wife, lots of people witnessed this some took photos , the whole building was surrounded by police in uniform and every device within seeing distance of the offence that had a sim card i.e. mobile phones and cameras .where smashed up. Within 5 minutes most of the church worshippers were in the Coptic church, so Doctor Samirs tactics did not work that day ,
the churches are still standing, and today the line is clearly visible , and the churches are not in the avenues line.

This same Priest a few months earlier was involved in an accident not of his making the vehicle was brand new and went to a garage for a minor repair to its bumper, after it being in the garage a couple of weeks and asking what was the problem, could not get the part was the garage owners answer , then my lawyer had a phone call to say the vehicle was been driven around by two youths and had smashed into a lampost causing severe damage to the car, now the garage owner wanted to call the police to report the accident,
Knowing full well his 12 year old boy had been driving around in the car from the first day it was brought in for repairs, but him and his lot being muslim could get away with telling the police the car owner did the damage and ran away from the scene, but unknown to the garage owner the priest was at a convention , far from the incident, but my lawyer having been in this situation before went to the scene of the accident , then called the police. First he got eye witnesses to say what happened “” oh them poor kids are they ok will there be any thing to pay for hospital etc,” and of course the greedy owner said yes my child is in need of a doctor, letting himself deep in the shit pile. When the police arrived it was all agreed that the owner of the garage will pay for all the damage. No the lawyer said you will give a new car.
Two days later the priest was back on the road with his new car, “now” not that it would happen but if this happened to a Muslim car owner, the kids would have been dragged in front of the court the father would have been heavily fined even his garage closed down.
It took the police one hour to get to the scene even though it was one kilometre from the police station, the garage owner most like as my lawyer said gave the police a nice backhander to keep the incident Quiet .
Which brings me on to my dislike of the corruption here in Luxor district. I say Luxor District because the forgery office and main court is in the Luxor Guvornate of Quena 45 kilometres from luxor towards Cairo.
In 2004 Dr Samir Farak was new here in Luxor known then as Luxor’s no 1 man , I was told to go see him if I as A foreigner investing my money in Egypt and wanting to know anything should go and see, so I did . At the time there was a lot of new build houses being demolished these where as it turned out where being built without planning on government land and foreigners who dealt with the rogue builders lost a lot of money most of these owners lived in another country and only came here on short stay to see how the investment project was going on, , now this is how it worked . The builder would buy land by the Nile sell it off plot by plot for cash very cheap not over stepping the mark where the greedy investor would ask why is it so expensive anyone who could not come up with two thousand sterling would be a fool looking for land by the Nile so the first money the investor forked out was for the land the original owner of the land some poor farmer who leased the land from the government and had done since it was given to the people by Nasser back in the 70s so people in the area naturally presumed this was the farmers land to sell or do whatever he wanted with it, he would get a few pounds per square metre usually bought by carrat 120 square metres , and up would go the building, in the morning of the first day of building not gone unnoticed by the police are the lorries of sand cement and the rest of the building materials , ooh better go and inspect what’s happening , a few coppers in the hand is worth a new floor and away go the police blinded by the money in the pocket, within 3 weeks just in Time before the investor is back to view the project is almost complete and time to pay up then we build the walls around the property unless its in a row then there are back and front garden walls to build and within the two weeks the investor is here the project is finished, it will take 6 months for the papers to come the happy people are told and away they go back to wherever, with this six months the builders had worked very hard and built twenty houses. By the time the investors came back key in hand , both builders and lawyers had disappeared and so had the houses,
And that’s the reason I went to see the eminent doctor. Where is it safe to build I asked?
Not on the west bank he honestly said, buy this time I had been talking to my then taxi driver and for reasons of paying me back through Sheikh Tayeb I cannot mention the toe rags name or the hotel I built.
So I asked the Doc how do I stand if I build my home on the second floor of someone’s home I even told him where it was, oh no problem there he said as long as you only build one more floor. What’s the name of the people , told him and now I wonder why he needed to know who the owner was, not in his place to know who is the owner, unless???
Now even at that time this house and all of that street being the main road to the Valley of the Kings Is due for widening by twice its now width I.e. duel carriageway, where the hotel now stands is going to be a large roundabout. that’s the first lie I had from the eminent doc. The other was regarding land in the area know as new Gurna. After my being forced out of the hotel, I was seeking to look for land thinking my swindle case would only take a few months to sort out in the court, wrong!
Any way this guy wanted money up front and 40 fadan is a good area to invest in , but \I said this is free land you are giving to the foreign investor, yes he said you can have 40 fadan then you get 5 carrat to build your own home. After looking into this great deal I find the eminent doc wants me to build on ;- 70 carrat is one fadan one carrat is what I wanted to build a villa and have a bit of a garden, so he wanted me to build houses for these poor sods who got kicked off the land here in Luxor where I could sell and keep 5% of the profit , but also in the agreement for this free land is :- work must start within 6 months only one story house and all must be complete in 2 years or the land and the buildings go back to the original owner I E Luxor district council, IE Samir Farak,
The last incident with this nice corrupt man was the flat in Awameia right across the road to his new build council offices, will I be safe renting a flat there , oh yes”””” I do not know why he lied about this place, why not say yes its ok for 3 years , after we build the heritage centre it will be coming down,
Then I started doing the Nile pollution blog I wrote a letter to Doc S F putting my concerns as to his filling in Nile Land mainly because I saw the rubbish from the hospital demolition used needles bandages the usual stuff that other countries put in incinerators even asbestos glass fibre pkauf plasterboards banned for use in the eu because of its toxic content, but here it was being dumped in the Nile I showed them pictures of the trucks dumping and what is was doing to the wildlife and the land. Not my area he said go to see the council in el Bdeia by the time I got to see this other guy the report had gone in some foreigners has seen the rubbish , so it was being skimmed over with soil to make it look OK same with all here in Egypt out of sight out of mind. The doc also ordered the police or whoever to down my site on Nile pollution.
Now the judicial corruption,
The judges do not run the courts here the bad lawyers do , time and time again I hear stories of the bad lawyers, as I found out 18 months after I finished the building . that’s how long this lawyer took to make the papers, I was renting the land I was not the owner, , 350 cases of land registry to foreigners just like my hotel the papers in Arabic,
now this court has ruled no papers to be signed unless they are in both languages,
Problem is why did the judges sign rent contracts, rent contracts are made between the two parties and two lawyers
In my case the lawyer Mustafa Atea was acting for both parties , I thought he was my lawyer ,
This in itself under the law here carries a custodial sentence of 4 years and never to practice law again.
But the whole fiasco was overlooked by the judges, as was the forged English rent papers that turned up in court 12 months after the first hearing by the corrupt prosecution judges, the original Arabic rent contract went in front of at least five of the judges, before they referred the case to court, first case was the swindle case both the lawyer and the land owner were charged of swindling me out of my home and money, then during the first year waiting for the first case to come to court, there are 3 more cases one was the fire where we were forced out of the hotel the owner had 2 witnesses to say me and my wife started the fire we were drunk at the time we were found not guilty but we could have beeb serving jail time of 3 years for arson, then there was the case of assault My wife was beaten with a stave and I had my finger smashed in trying to protect her , this is the astonishing part I got 2 weeks jail and the owners father got 1 month he served only one day claimed he was ill , he is a diabetic, I had my sentence quashed on appeal on the payment of 1000egp.
On the third charge this was two weeks after the first court hearing I was ordered to take the forged papers to the Port said road Law court in Cairo. As I was waiting for the papers to get stamped and a note to say why I was in the translation office in cairo, Mustafa the lawyer pushed pass me, as it happened the head of secretarial papers to go in front of and to be put away in files was the uncle Hassan Atea, of the lawyer . As he came out of the office I asked which child made these papers he then hit me full in the face and ran off. I chased after him and cought him as he was about to go down the stairs he put his face right up to mine and said nothing you can do this is a muslim court and seeing He kindly put his face right up to mine I head butted him , but to no avail I caught my head in his teeth and did myself more damage than his he then pushed me over some people sitting on the floor, and I banged my head on the wall , as I picked myself up he ran off down the stairs. My lawyer turned up asked what the blood was on my forehead, and we need them papers signed, ok, during this rucs there was a witness well there was a lot of witnesses some were handcuffed to others and the police guards there was also eight witnesses these are plonkers attached to do the running about for the prosecution judges , and the other was a young court police man he was there to keep order I guess.
After I had the papers signed and was leaving the court I stopped to tell a captain in the court police office
What had happened, but he said go see the tourist police , as I was getting on the local bus the phone rang, two ladies wanted me to take them to the desert, no nothing funny just one old friend and her friend wanted to go for a few days to the white desert can we make a trip, I had 3 weeks before I was due to visit the court in Cairo , so thought yes after all the hassle of the past 12 months it will be nice to get away. 2 days into the trip my lawyer phoned need you in the court now. So I had to cut my trip short, this lawyer Atea had put in an assault charge against me. Can I see your hands was the first question the judge asked, then I was told I had beaten the lawyer up and he was making an assault charge against me at the end of our conversation the Judge the head of prosecution said ok finished and ripped the papers up, now what had happened this twit had left the court got someone to punch him in the face three times almost in the same are but the thug wore a ring, leaving some nasty marks on the lawyers face , he then went to the hospital to get a damage report he then went to the police and made a complaint , I was in the same police office not one hour before him telling the police how he assaulted me, asked if I wanted to make a complaint I said no , its enough that I had already spent more than 300 hours in this police station or in some courtroom and I did not want to spend any more what turned out to be wasted hours, plus I had already read three of the police statements and my translated statements , the police report on this incident even though I had been to see them before the lawyer , read at the end I was a trouble maker, none of my statements to the police read what I actually wrote down in my statements, the first incident the day before I made the swindle case statement was not even logged. After the swindlers where called to the office to answer the charges , they said that I will have my money back the next day . Is that ok with you the police asked And I said sure, come to the office in the afternoon we will have your money,
No sign of my money so I went and made the swindle case knowing then they were in it together, the police knew this would happen , cannot tell me I am the first person they have had to make a swindle charge it’s the owners third charge of swindling all three had been dropped no proof, god knows how many charges have been made against the lawyer. But they knew when they left that station patting me on the back saying we need these men in Jail please stay with the case, nice bit of money coming their way. If I stay on the case,
They knew what was going on the land owner had a file as long as my arm with the police, he was being monitored on drug trafficking black marketeering, the cops wanted to know what I knew about him where he get his drugs who are the people that come to the hotel with artefacts, these people cant even shit without the cops knowing, so why treat me as a criminal , the hotel was built right next door to a police check point we even had a police traffic watch tower in the hotel ground , and no one could say be careful this man is a known crook. All the way through the 3 years court case I was treated as the offender, not the Muslim guy he was using my money to pay his way through the trial, his lawyer had a new car from my money god knows how much it has cost them bribing the judges and police I know Ebd El Moshin the general of tourist security was getting one thousand a month from the hotel no wonder he put in his report ;|I never lived in the hotel,
I asked him if I was under arrest on one of the cases , no he said , if he said yes He would have to make a statement for the British embassy. And never in the three cases of arrest was the embassy told , and its no wonder the embassy tell us lies the only use they have here is for a lost, or getting a new passport or sending my body back home as long as they get the full money before handing over the corpse to my spouse, I have spent several days in Cairo trying to see a consulate official his name was Richard now retired but twice I was lied to on days he was in the last time I waited 3 days in Cairo after being told he will be in on Wednesday I phoned from the hotel at 8.00 and was told he was there when I arrived at the consulate been let in and talking to the girl behind the bars he is not in today sorry, she is the one I spoke to half an hour earlier.
And if I am getting all this corruption I hate to think about the corruption that these people have to put up with, this court has 12 judges almost 2000 lawyers of whom I should say all are corrupt some a lot more than others but even to work in this court they have to be corrupt handing money to a police man to get papers seen to before another is corruption keeping my case going knowing full well I will not win that’s deception to them it’s a game of who can get the most out of the client, and over the longest possible time. My lawyers knew that papers went missing and who was doing this, oh lets put a case of misdemeanour in .4 times at a cost of 900 each time to the head judge in Quena, as we arrived in Quena so did the lost papers, twice the forgery papers never arrived in the forgery office , why the inspector is Mustafa Atea’s uncle, so not only did this Lawyer have the head secretary who saw every paper that went in front of a Judge he had another uncle in the forgery office, cute eh! Talk about being set up.