Unidentified assailants reportedly threw a bomb at the house of the Egyptian judge who presided over the "prison break" trial of former president Mohamed Morsi, early Thursday, with no casualties reported, according to the Aswat Masriya website. Eyewitnesses said that unknown attackers in a car threw a bomb at Judge Khaled Mahgoub's villa in Helwan, a southern suburb of Cairo, and drove away. No one was hurt but damage was done to the walls and windows of the house and to the garage, due to a domestic gas leak, according to a security source. Mahgoub and his family happened to be out at the time of the attack. Mahgoub's first reaction was to denounce the attack, and to confirm that it would not stop him doing his job. He told Youm7 newspaper that the terrorist group had put him on their assassination list, in revenge for the judgments he had passed against the Muslim Brotherhood, (MB), during their reign. Security personnel arrived at the bombing site, to investigate the incident but no further details are available about the identity of the assailants. Khaled Mahgoub is the head of the court that was prosecuting, (while the MB were in power), former president Mohamed Morsi, along with 130 other MB members, including their Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, on charges of escaping from the Wadi Al Natroun prison during the January 25, 2011 Revolution. A Cairo criminal court sentenced 26 of the defendants, not including Morsi, to three years in prison, and fined them EGP10 thousand, for insulting the judges. Morsi was ousted in July 2013, after popular protests against his regime, ended in his being arrested on charges of killing peaceful protestors, espionage and escaping from prison.
