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Egypt's notorious serial mutilator arrested.


Summary: Egyptian police arrested a notorious serial mutilator mu·ti·late  
tr.v. mu·ti·lat·ed, mu·ti·lat·ing, mu·ti·lates
1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple.

2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue.
, who became known for attacking women and cutting open the clothing, spreading panic in an upper class Cairo suburb before going into hiding for

Egyptian police arrested a notorious serial mutilator, who became known for attacking women and cutting open the clothing, spreading panic in an upper class Cairo suburb before going into hiding for two years.

The assailant became known in Egyptian media as the "Maadi serial mutilator," referring to the quiet Cairo suburb where he assaulted women with a razor blade ra·zor·blade also ra·zor blade  
n.
A thin sharp-edged piece of steel that can be fitted into a razor.

razor blade nhoja de afeitar

razor blade 
 and cut open their clothing.

The frequency of his attacks had people talking all over Egypt and his two-year disappearance simply added to the mystery.

"The culprit was arrested three days ago in the densely populated district of Shubra in northern Cairo," said General Farouk Lashin, chief of the Cairo Investigation Bureau, during a press conference on Wednesday. The man was apprehended after residents in an apartment block in Cairo's Shubra district found his behavior suspicious and decided to call the police.

When police arrived to asked why he was there, he had replied that he came to the entrance of the building to masturbate mas·tur·bate
v.
To perform an act of masturbation.
 after watching a pornographic movie with his friends.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 police, the man confessed to being addicted to masturbation masturbation

Erotic stimulation of one's own genital organs, usually to achieve orgasm. Masturbatory behavior is common in infants and adolescents, and is indulged in by many adults as well. Studies indicate that over 90% of U.S. males and 60–80% of U.S.
, an act he performed at least five times daily.

During interrogations he said the idea of attacking women came to him while watching a movie with a man stripping a woman naked in the middle of the street.

Since he was not able to do the same thing in Egypt he had decided to use a razor blade to cut off the women's clothes instead, to then go and masturbate in the nearest secluded area.

He confessed to 11 attacks and said he chose the Maadi district because he liked the way the women looked there.

The assailant said he stopped after receiving a severe beating by the son of woman he was planning to attack in a Cairo subway station thereby explaining his two-year disappearance that had left many people wondering.

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Publication:Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)
Date:Feb 11, 2009
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