Professor Badr al-Din, Egypt's Ambassador in South Africa, said the Egyptian Diplomatic Mission had decided to give some respite to the South-African newspapers which published false allegations about the Egyptian Football Squad. Badr added that, the Egyptian Embassy in South Africa had graciously given respite to those newspapers so that they might correct their mistakes and publish apologies for their deployment of Egypt, before leading a lawsuit against them. The Egyptian Ambassador told Al Masry Al Youm, the South African police's statement, wherein the Egyptian football squads' players had been cleared from the charge of bringing prostitutes back to their rooms on the night of their match with Italy. He said that it was decided that the newspaper that had published the false information, had apologized for the indiscretion. He added that, the Sunday World, the newspaper involved, was to be issued every Sunday, and that Egypt would wait the next publication to see whether or not an apology would publicly appear. However, if an apology was not published, a lawsuit would be filed against the newspaper, continued the Ambassador. On their part, the South African police announced yesterday the findings of investigations made with regards to the theft encountered by Egypt's players during their participation in the Confederations Cup.
