The Egyptian Court of Cassation ruled to reject the appeal submitted by the “Butcher of Giza,” and upheld the death sentence issued against him for the murder of his lifelong friend, engineer Reda Abdel Latif.

Since the beginning of 2024, the accused Gaddafi Farraj Abdel Ati, known in the media as the “Butcher of Giza,” has been issued 3 final death sentences on numerous charges, most notably the premeditated murder of a number of his acquaintances, led by his wife.

The second final ruling... An Egyptian court upholds the execution of the “Giza Butcher”

The latest of these rulings was issued today, Monday, as the Court of Cassation partially rejected Appeal No. 12441 of 91, capital felonies, in Case No. 3066 of 2021, Bulaq Al-Dakrour, and the reasons for the appeal were filed on May 5, 2021, for the accused Gaddafi Farraj.

In this case, the Egyptian Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence issued by the “Butcher of Giza” on charges of killing his lifelong friend, engineer Reda Abdel Latif.

The Cairo Criminal Court previously ruled that the defendant be punished with death by hanging for the premeditated murder of his friend, engineer Reda Abdel Latif.

The confirmation of the other death sentence against the accused came on February 18, when the Court of Cassation ruled to uphold the death sentence issued against Gaddafi Farraj on the charge of killing his wife.

Earlier, the Court of Cassation ruled to uphold two final rulings against the “Giza Butcher”, namely the death sentence in the case of the murder of the Alexandria girl, and a life sentence in the forgery case.

Judgments issued against the “Giza Butcher”

The Giza killer inside the court

Since 2021, Egyptian criminal courts have issued about 4 death sentences against the Giza Butcher, the first of which was on March 21 after the Giza Criminal Court ruled to punish Gaddafi Farraj with death by hanging on charges of killing his wife Fatima Zakaria.

On March 24, the same sentence was issued against the accused on the basis of his accusation of intentionally killing his friend Reda Abdul Latif with premeditation and premeditation, and on March 27, 2021, the second death sentence was issued against Gaddafi on charges of killing his wife’s sister, Nadine Al-Sayyed.

On April 5, 2021, the Alexandria Criminal Court issued the third death sentence against the accused in the case of accusing him of killing one of his victims in Alexandria.

The Giza killer inside the court

Years ago, the Egyptian Public Prosecutor, Counselor Hamada Al-Sawy, referred the accused Gaddafi Farraj to the Criminal Court in 4 cases being heard in the Al-Haram and Boulaq Al-Dakrur districts in Cairo and Al-Montazah in Alexandria. To punish him for allegedly intentionally killing 4 people: his wife, two women, and a man, with premeditation during the years 2015 and 2017, and hiding their bodies by burying them in graves he prepared for that purpose inside homes.

The Public Prosecution presented evidence before the accused in the four cases from the testimony of 17 witnesses, the accused’s confessions during the investigations, the exhumation of the bodies of the victims from the places where they were buried, and what was proven in reports of the anatomical nature of those bodies.

The prosecution indicated that the genetic fingerprints taken from it were identical to those taken from the victims’ families, and what was proven in the reports of the General Department of Forensic Investigation regarding the examination of antiquities removed from the places where bodies were exhumed, as well as the accused’s simulation of how he committed the four incidents.