American Embassy official summoned over alleged attack on Egyptia

CAIRO: The Egyptian foreign ministry has summoned an American Embassy in Cairo official to discuss the alleged attack on an Egyptian man inside the embassy. According to local reports, the ministry summoned the embassy's Chargé d'Affairs in order to demand an explanation over the circumstances concerning the alleged incident inside the Embassy.
Ahmed Mohamed al-Takruri, 32, filed a complaint at Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil police station, where he claimed to have been “lured inside the Embassy” before being attacked by three Americans “carrying weapons,” a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The mortgage marketing company owner told police he was beaten “severely, causing several injuries” before he was taken to a local hospital where his injuries were allegedly addressed.
One Egyptian observer told Bikya Masr that he doubted the man's claims after watching him on national television describing the events in question. “If he were beaten and injured there would have been marks and he [al-Takruri] would not have been all smiles,” the man said.
According to a ministry press release last week “it had summoned the Chargé d'affaires, after the Foreign Minister received a notification from the Attorney General, who was notifying him about the communication filed by al-Takruri, saying that he and his mother were beaten by security guards at the American Embassy, when he went to inquire information about his American wife, who disappeared along with his 2 children.”
The American diplomat, whose identity was not reported, was reported over the weekend in local press to have said that al-Takruri threatened the consular department at the Embassy via telephone that the embassy helped his wife and two children to get out of the country without his knowledge.
The ministry's statement noted that the American diplomat denied any excesses by the embassy's staff, or beating al-Takruri or his mother, pointing to the existence of internal embassy cameras, which recorded everything that happened. The American diplomat said that “the action of the security of the embassy was to prevent al-Takruri from attacking others because of the psychotic anger he was suffering from.”
The diplomat expressed his government's readiness for full cooperation with the Egyptian judicial bodies, which are currently investigating the incident, saying with confidence that the results of this investigation will prove “the fact that there has been no no attack on al-Takruri or his mother.” The diplomat stressed that the embassy respected Egyptian laws and that “the family is still in Cairo and did not leave the country.”
**reporting by Mohamed Abdel Salam
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