Public prosecutors in the capital's Giza district on Wednesday ordered the arrest of a police officer, along with 11 others, charged with kidnapping a man at gunpoint and briefly holding him prisoner in the southern Fayoum province. Investigations revealed that the kidnappers had used a woman to seduce their victim, who had agreed to meet her in front of a nightclub on Cairo's Pyramids Road. When he arrived for the rendezvous, he was quickly handcuffed and blindfolded by his attackers, who then whisked him away in a truck. The accused police officer has denied the charge. But subsequent investigations revealed that he had recently sold his car to the victim's father -- for LE130,000 -- which the latter failed to pay. Police seized an automatic rifle, a handgun and 308 rounds of ammunition found in the possession of the kidnappers. Translated from the Arabic Edition.
