The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Monday two of Keif Café's mangers to two years of imprisonment, after being charged with detaining customers and forcedly collecting money from them. The café also witnessed the murder of a young man named Mahmoud Bayoumi in early February. Two weeks ago, the prosecution ordered the referral of one of the café workers to the Criminal Court with charges of murder. The defendant is said to have assaulted the victim. Bayoumi died as a result of a puncture wound in the lung, after staff members from Keif Café stabbed him when a dispute erupted over the minimum charge. Eyewitnesses said the restaurant waiters and manager were threatening customers at the end of a football match between Egypt and Cameroon. While the restaurant itself was closed and police cars were parked outside, the authorities shut down several unlicensed cafés in Heliopolis in response to the incident. This was also a result of increased complaints after the Consumer Protection Agency urged citizens to report any restaurant imposing a minimum charge, stressing the illegality of such a measure.
