A scandal with a Russian tourist flares up in Cairo – “widely known in narrow circles” photographer Arseniy Kotov was stoned and detained in Cairo. The reason was the shooting in the “city of garbage”, writes “Turprom”.
According to the victim himself in his Instagram, he was attacked by locals in the “rotten city”. “I’m walking down the hill, I don’t touch anyone, as a man runs up to me and grabs my camera and starts shouting wildly in Arabic, waving his fists. I try to calm him down, I say that from Russia, a tourist. But he holds me firmly by the camera and backpack and pulls me aside. I try to snatch the camera, but it hits me in the face, I fall to the ground, he swings the camera, wanting to break, I have to take the fight on someone else’s land … He falls, finally releasing the camera. I go to the suffocating from above, he cries and tries to take the stone, but I disturb him, I continue to suffocate, but three of his friends run up, I suddenly find myself on the ground face down and a stone flies into the back of my head. Disoriented, I stand near the half-ruined wall on the edge of the slope, dodging the next stone, ”the victim describes in a picturesque way. As a result, he still managed to escape, but the adventures of the tourist, as follows from the new post, did not end.
“I am being held at the Manshee Noser police station in Cairo,” the tourist told subscribers. He added that “after a sleepless night, with a concussion, I want to deal with public security through photos of the” rotten area “and urged his readers to” please call the Russian Foreign Ministry and tell us about the situation, “adding that the embassy did not find after 5 calls no help.
The police found out that a local resident attacked the photographer, thinking that he was taking pictures of his wife. As a result, the situation “thundered” in the media, in particular, Russia Today wrote about the situation. The media claim that the photographer was assisted by employees of the Russian consular department.