Egypt, Nessy Guerra: “My ex has been arrested, it's fantastic news”

With a video on Instagram Nessy Guerra made it known that her ex-husband was arrested for threatening the Italian consul in Hurghada. "Eighty-three euros to get him out of prison today. Five thousand Egyptian pounds equal to 83 euros to get him out of prison today following the threats he made against the Consul and the attempted attack. I already know what will happen when this man sets foot out of prison. Are our lives worth 83 euros? Now I want to see what the ministers and diplomats will do." The Italian citizen, involved in a court case with her ex-husband for months, was convicted in Egypt because she was accused by her ex-husband of adultery. The Italian Government has been following her case for months, continuing to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities at the highest level to guarantee maximum protection for her compatriot and her daughter.

Nessy Guerra's lawyer

"It is a small step forward, because Tamer Hamouda was arrested also considering his dangerousness and the threats made to Nessy". Thus the lawyer Agata Armanetti, lawyer of Nessy Guerra, 27 years old, originally from Sanremo, comments on the arrest of the woman's ex-husband, which took place last night in Egypt. The man had been sentenced to a year in prison and a fine of 10,000 Egyptian pounds for threats made to the Italian honorary consul in Hurghada, Orazio Gioacchini. Guerra herself spread the news of the arrest, with a video published on Instagram, in which she referred to security reasons. A circumstance confirmed, according to what the lawyer reported, also by the information received from the Italian Embassy in Egypt. "He was arrested for the issue relating to the sentence pronounced a few days ago, when he had threatened the Italian consul in Hurghada. He was arrested because he is a dangerous person, who threatened Nessy, going as far as talking about stoning", explains Armanetti. But what weighed in the decision to take the man to prison, according to the lawyer, were some videos in which Hamouda makes statements against Islam. Video which, in collaboration with an Egyptian lawyer and the Italian Embassy, ​​the lawyer sent to National Security. "We sent videos in which he smears Islam, with subtitles. They were in Italian, we had them translated into Arabic. This, in my opinion, reached where it should have arrived and they took him to prison for security reasons. This is what our Embassy told us", declares the lawyer, specifying that Italian diplomacy was also involved in the transmission of the material.

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Egypt, ex-husband threatens Nessy Guerra: "Marry me or go to prison"