Algerian students arrive on wheelchairs after Egyptian attacks

Two Algerian students arrived to Algeria from Egypt on wheelchairs Wednesday after a group of Egyptian people had attacked them using knives.

• Miloud Boumami was injured in his right shoulder, his head and his chest. It was difficult for him to utter words.
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• “Please, I can’t speak. It is a humiliation I have never seen before in my life. Thanks Allah, I have come back to my country safe and sound,” said Mourad Baadjoudj.
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• The attackers injured his right foot. “I was trying to defend myself as the attacker wanted to cut my foot.” His finger was torn and he was wounded in different parts of his body.
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• Mourad studies at the Egypt-based Institute of Researches and Arab Studies. “We were attacked twice. Some Egyptian people burnt the door of our apartment on November 18. A group of about 30 people attacked us with knives on November 21 at home. They run away as they thought we were killed.”
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• “I remember that I found myself in the house of an Algerian neighbour. She helped us on the sly.”
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• According to Mourad, Egyptian investigators interrogated him and Miloud for 12 hours without giving them food. “We were not allowed even to go to the bathroom.”
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• “Our apartment was stolen and damaged.”
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• Mourad said a group of people helped them to go to the Algerian embassy in Egypt. “An Algerian woman bought air tickets for us and helped us to reach the airport.”
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• 800 Algeria students fled Egypt
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• Mourad and Miloud were among tens of students who arraived to Algeria. A number of them told Echorouk some 800 Algerian students fled to their country since the Egyptian attacks started.
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• Students harassed in Egypt
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• Tens others plan to come back with the help of Arab people. Others said they were planning to go to Libya on Tuesday.
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• Samia Mohamed said Algerian students have been harassed in Egypt since November 18 play-off. Because of that, they decided to come back to their country.