Tourists bus assailants' trial starts in military court
Egypt, Judicial, 10/16/1997

A Cairo military court yesterday started the trial of Saber Farahat Aboul-Ela, for carrying out a September 18 bomb attack on a tourists bus, killing 9 German tourists and their Egyptian bus driver.

In 1993, a year after the release of an album he made with his former music partner Ela, 32, Saber walked into a restaurant in Cairo's 5-star, Semiramis hotel and shot foreign visitors down as they dined. Two Americans and a leading French legal expert attending a conference at the hotel were killed. Saber was sent to a mental hospital after the hotel attack according to a certificate of insanity from a doctor.The doctor is facing charges.

President Mubarak had issued a decree referring the two suspects to the military court. Police arrested Saber and his brother Mahmoud after a bus carrying 33 German tourists was attacked and burned by a petroleum bomb while parked in busy Tahrir Square.

Previous Stories:
  Reports on mental condition of bus attacker premature   (9/24/1997)
  Bodies of Germans killed in bus attack sent home yesterday   (9/22/1997)
  Eighteen killed and injured in Cairo bomb blast   (9/19/1997)

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