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Egyptian Thief Steals Journalist’s Phone During Live Broadcast (Pix, Video)
Egyptian social media customers have hailed a person who inadvertently broadcast his face to 1000’s of individuals whereas stealing a journalist’s cellphone as “the best thief in Egypt”.
Mahmoud Ragheb, a reporter for the information website Youm7, was livestreaming a report on social media when the thief drove by on a motorcycle and seized his cellphone.
The published then revealed the younger thief’s face as he sped away from the scene casually smoking a cigarette.
Police have since introduced his arrest.
Based on Youm7, the incident occurred on a bridge in Egypt’s fourth-largest metropolis, Shubra Al-Khaimah, the place Mr Ragheb was reporting on the after-effects of a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled elements of Egypt.
Mr Ragheb was filming the bridge when his cellphone was grabbed roughly from his palms by the unnamed thief. As soon as the digital camera had stopped shaking it revealed the face of a younger man smoking a cigarette and checking barely nervously behind him to see if anybody was in pursuit.
Nevertheless, there was little sympathy for the intrepid reporter’s plight, with most social media customers focussing on the thief’s relaxed manner as he snatched the cellphone and continued to drag on his cigarette as he made his escape.
One consumer commented that they’d “died from laughter,” whereas one other questioned why the person had bothered wanting behind him whereas “the entire world is watching you”.
Greater than 20,000 folks have been watching the livestream when the theft passed off and based on figures on Fb, the video has since racked up greater than 6.2 million views and 45,000 feedback in a little bit over 24 hours.
Sadly for the thief, broadcasting his face on this approach made it comparatively simple for authorities to trace him down. The Ministry of the Inside introduced final night time that it has detained him.
In a press release, the ministry stated that the person is “jobless” and that he has since bought the stolen cellular to a dealer.
