152 Mps accused of vaolance acts in 2013 : investiagation

CAIRO, June 20 (MENA) - Supreme State Security Prosecution investigations revealed that as many as 152 defendants, who have recently been referred to military court by Prosecutor General Nabil Sadeq, all are members of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group who were involved in conducting attacks, sabotage and violence acts in the wake of June 30 revolution.

Investigations were supervised by First Attorney at the Supreme State Security Prosecution Counselor Khaled Diyaa El Din and led by Prosecution Attorney General Counselor Mohammad Wagih.

The defendants are facing charges of forming specialized committees belonging to the banned group in Fayyoum to carry out terrorist crimes, attack police and army facilities, planting explosives, assaulting and assassinating policemen, targeting power stations and planting explosives on public roads upon direct orders from the group's leaders.

The defendants also admitted that they have joined the armed sit-in organized by the Muslim Brotherhood at Rabaa al Adawiya Square at Cairo's district of Nasr City. They have also organized protests in Fayyoum.

A number of defendants confessed to their crimes with the aim of spreading chaos and forcing the state to negotiate with the banned group .

The prosecution announced that the defendants had carried out as many as 29 terror operations over two years, claiming the lives of five persons, and planned to kill five others. The attacks inflicted losses worth 1.7 million in a number of state facilities.

According to the investigation results, the defendants had in their possession publications and leaflets that "incite against state institutions", planned to overthrow the government, and had in their possession weapons and explosives.

Egypt listed the Islamic State group and their affiliates a"terrorist organisation" as per a court ruling in November 2014.

Some of the defendants confessed that the banned group established a training camp in early January 2015 to train their militants on the use of guns against fuel tanks and police patrols on the Fayyoum-Cairo road.(MENA)