The Giza Criminal Court in the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt ruled today, Monday, to sentence the pharmacist accused of killing his wife, also a pharmacist, and their two young daughters, Zina and Jamila, to death by hanging, following the approval of the Grand Mufti of the Republic for the execution of the accused.
The details of the incident date back to March 2023 when residents of Al-Hamzawi Street in the First District of Tanta woke up to the news of the death of the pharmacist and her two daughters due to a gas leak inside their apartment. The Gharbia Security Directorate received a report from a woman stating that her sister, Mona Sarougi, a 42-year-old pharmacist, and her daughters Zina (17 years) and Jamila (7 years) died from gas inhalation inside their apartment, accusing the victim's husband of causing the incident.
Police arrived to examine the scene and found the apartment's contents scattered and the glass of a table broken. The woman who reported the incident stated that she smelled gas upon entering the apartment when she discovered the incident, so she turned off the stove and notified the prosecution to investigate. The accused was then arrested and referred to criminal trial, which issued the aforementioned ruling.
Security authorities discovered the bodies of Mona Sarougi and her daughters, found lying in the living room of the apartment. The accused husband claimed during the investigations that he worked in the pharmaceutical trade, saying, "I am a pharmacist and I have two pharmacies, and I was burning the medicine recently, meaning I was selling it below its official price, and I accumulated a lot of debts."
He added that he began taking loans from someone at a very high interest rate and gradually started losing his money, saying, "Life has become dark for me, and I couldn't see any solutions to my crisis, and everything was in the name of Dr. Mona, my wife, but I was just managing the money, and I felt that I had implicated her and she would be exposed with me, so I thought of getting rid of her to end the scandal."
