{"id":53829,"date":"2018-01-03T12:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=53829"},"modified":"2018-01-03T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:17:24","slug":"%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%81%d8%ae%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-29-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%86%d9%8b%d8%a7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a5%d8%b1%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%a8%d9%8a-%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%81%d8%ae%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d9%82%d8%aa%d9%84-29-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%86%d9%8b%d8%a7\/","title":{"rendered":"Helwan Church Terrorist: I am proud of killing 29 citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The terrorist accused of the attack on Helwan Church made detailed confessions, saying: &#8220;I am proud and happy with the terrorist incidents executed and killing 29 citizens in separate incidents and wounding more than 20 others with automatic rifle&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I tried to enter the church and I expected that I would\u00a0be killed or be arrested,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This happened what happened\u00a0as security forces shot\u00a0me and\u00a0the people hit me so that I lost consciousness.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The terrorist also confessed\u00a0of killing a citizen and stealing his car\u00a0to use it in his terrorist\u00a0attacks and targeting St. Mina church in Helwan on Friday, and that he planned to do so and had observed the area after the attack on the Beni Suef ambush.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The terrorist added: &#8220;He was frustrated when he found the tight security\u00a0around\u00a0the church\u00a0so he shot two people in a shop in Atlas to attract the attention of the church security, but they did not\u00a0move and\u00a0stayed\u00a0around\u00a0the church and that he was walking in the street when the doors of the church were closed, trying to blow up the bomb he had in any Coptic gathering, but he failed\u00a0so he shot randomly at passers-by and anyone approaching the church believing that he was a Copt.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The terrorist is\u00a033-year old Ibrahim Ismail Mostafa, a\u00a0 worker at an aluminum company who was previously involved in militant attacks against security forces, as well as crimes against civilians.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He resided at Mansheyet al-Sadd street in Helwan but has been absent from his residence after authorities attempted to search for him. He previously hid in plantations in Upper Egypt, as he is believed to be one of the perpetrators of an attack on a police vehicle in 2016.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Mostafa was injured and arrested during the attack. The automatic rifle in his possession was seized by the police, as well as an improvised explosive device (IED) which he intended to blow up the church with.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He also carried out attacks on his own, including on a road-toll on December 28 in Beni Suef that resulted in the killing of three workers. He also attacked a coffee shop in al-Amereya village, Ayyat, on December 23, killing three and injuring five others. Furthermore, he attacked a separate road-toll in Ayyat, Giza, on July 5, killing three workers.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">He killed a citizen and seized his car in Helwan on August 8, 2016, according to the interior ministry.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">The weapon seized from the suspect was found to be identical with the weapon used in all the above mentioned incidents, revealed the ministry.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorist accused of the attack on Helwan Church made detailed confessions, saying: &#8220;I am proud and happy with the terrorist incidents executed and killing 29 citizens in separate incidents and wounding more than 20 others with automatic rifle&#8221; &#8220;I tried to enter the church and I expected that I would\u00a0be killed or be arrested,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":53830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[10464,10461,10419,4589,10463,10416,10457,10460,10462,10459,10458],"class_list":["post-53829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-29-citizens","tag-29-","tag-helwan-church","tag-killing","tag-proud","tag-terrorist","tag-10457","tag-10460","tag-10462","tag-10459","tag-10458"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53831,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53829\/revisions\/53831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}