
A year after the death of Habiba Al -Shamaa, known as the “Uber Girl”, who was killed after her jumped from Uber, thinking that the driver is trying to kidnap her, there are still many questions surrounding the fate of the accused driver in the case.
In the following lines, “The Seventh Day” reviews the latest developments in the case, and the investigations of the Uber driver ended a year after the incident, which sparked widespread controversy.
The Cairo Criminal Court of Appeals, the acquittal of the Uber driver, who was accused of the death of Habiba Al -Shamaa, was acquitted of the charge of attempted the kidnapping of Habiba Al -Shamaa, while a 5 -year prison sentence was sentenced to the charge of possession and use of narcotic drugs.
The Cairo Criminal Court, held in the Fifth Settlement, sentenced the Uber driver accused of trying to kidnap Habiba Al -Shamaa, “Al -Shorouk Girl”, with a 15 -year prison imprisonment, a fine of 50 thousand pounds, and the cancellation of the driver’s license.
Habiba Al -Shamaa died on March 14th, affected by her injury after she jumped from the Uber driver’s car.
The Public Prosecution ordered the referral of the accused to try to kidnap the victim, Habiba Al -Shamaa, to the competent criminal court; To punish him on charges of attempting to kidnap it by coercion, and possessing the essence of the hashish in other than the legally authorized conditions, and its leadership is an automatic vehicle if it is under the influence of that drug.
And it was proven from the investigations of the Public Prosecution that with the first question to see the victim – trying to help her – after she threw herself from the accused’s car, that she mentioned to him that the accused wanted to kidnap her, and she said a text: “Uber wanted to kidnap me”, and that the legal representative of “Uber” testified that the accused had been closed by his account by applying the company before, because of the many complaints of the users of the application against him, except that he created another account Another nationalist through which the application was able to reuse the application, and the Public Prosecution copied a copy of the papers dedicated to achieving that forgery, and I also read the complaints submitted against the accused of the company in which he worked, so it became clear in one of them a complaint with a woman who decided to harass her physically.
Investigations also revealed that the accused took the drug of the drug hashish, according to the results of the samples of blood and urine taken from it, as proven by the forensic report.
Who is the sweetheart of Al -Shamaa?
The girl is called Habiba Al -Shamaa, who is currently 24 years old, a graduate of the Faculty of Media from the British University, and works in the field of furniture and decoration.
Who is the accused?
A 34 -year -old driver holds an industrial technical diploma, a refrigeration and air conditioning department, married with 3 children, the oldest of them in the primary stage.
The beginning of the incident was editing a report in the Al -Shorouk Police Department, with an attempt to kidnap a girl named “Habiba Al -Shamaa” after riding with the Uber driver, but she was surprised by an attempt to kidnap her, which prompted her to throw herself from the car while she was traveling very quickly, which caused her to be concussed and lost consciousness and was transferred to the hospital.