Some of the people of Kafr Al-Waslin in Giza governorate are exerting pressure on the Copts of the village for reconciliation in the case which is now being heard by the Court of Misdemeanors in which 20 defendants were accused of attacking St. Tadros church, including a 14-year-old boy who was placed in care home until determining his position as prosecution retracted the decision to hand him over to his family, as well as Coptic Eid Attia, who is accused of establishing a building without a permit, and stating that the building is a house not a church.
A number of people went to the Copts of the village and called for reconciliation, but the Copts refused, while others tried with the Diocese of Atfih for reconciliation, but the Diocese insisted on the application of the law, the defendants families seeks to find a way to reconcile in light of their difficult position before the judiciary as charges are proven, which means the possibility to get a prison sentences.
The extremists did not expect Kafr El-Waselin to be transferred so quickly to the urgent trial. Some thought that their fate would be like the fate of the other cases, and that they will reconcile before going to the court, but the Copts insisted on their right to pray in their closed church and refuse attempts to deny the church’s status and stating that it is a home of Eid Attia, which he donated to the Diocese with an official contract and the building was submitted to the Committee for the regulation of churches status to be legalized.
