مصري ادعى شرب 112 كوب شاي بمقهى أُغلق عليه بالخطأ.. ما قصته؟

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An Egyptian man named Ahmed claimed to be trapped in a café in Port Said and joked about drinking 112 cups of tea, posting about it on social media. The Egyptian police responded seriously to what was intended as a joke, leading to legal procedures against him.

Summary

The story involves a young Egyptian man who claimed to be locked inside a café in Port Said after his friend closed it at 9 PM during government-mandated energy conservation measures. The man, identified as Ahmed, initially treated the situation as a joke and posted on social media asking if anyone knew the café owner to help open it. However, what began as a lighthearted social media post quickly escalated when Egyptian police took the matter seriously. According to the Interior Ministry's statement, during questioning, the young man admitted that he had deliberately created and filmed the video content and published it on his social media platforms purely for entertainment purposes. The ministry indicated that his motivation was to increase views and followers on his social media accounts, and that legal procedures were subsequently initiated against him. Following the police intervention, the young man appears to have deleted all content related to this incident from his social media accounts. The narrator questions whether Ahmed actually achieved his goal of increasing his social media following, and whether the potential consequences were worth the temporary attention the stunt may have generated.

About this episode

#بي_بي_سي --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- هذه القناة الرسمية لبي بي سي نيوز عربي على يوتيوب. هل أنت مهتم بمعرفة آخر الأخبار من منظور حيادي؟ أنت في المكان الصحيح. بي بي سي من أكثر مصادر الأخبار موثوقية في العالم. ستجد هنا أفلاماً وثائقية، تحقيقات استقصائية، مقابلات وشرحاً لآخر الأحداث التي تهمك في السياسة، والمجتمع والعلوم والصحة. تابعونا على منصاتنا الأخرى الموقع الإلكتروني 👈 https://www.bbc.com/arabic انستغرام 👈 https://www.instagram.com/bbcarabic/ فيسبوك 👈 https://www.facebook.com/BBCnewsArabic/ إكس 👈 https://x.com/bbcarabic واتساب 👈 https://bbc.in/41wBNr3 "مجلة+" 👈 https://bbc.in/4jf8aQU

Key Insights

  • The young man admitted during police questioning that he deliberately created the video content specifically to gain social media views and followers rather than because of a genuine emergency
  • Egyptian authorities treated what was intended as a harmless social media joke as a serious matter requiring legal intervention and formal procedures
  • The incident occurred during government-mandated energy conservation measures that required businesses like cafés to close early in the evening

Topics

social media pranks and legal consequencesEgyptian police response to viral contentenergy conservation policies and public venues

Transcript

Beware of a joke that could make you a criminal record. Kother was in love with a young man who appears here in this video. He says he was trapped in Abu Ahmed's place in Bursaid after his friend closed it at 9 in the evening. Exactly when he was in the water tour, he made a final decision to close the Egyptian government to guide the consumption of energy. Anyway, Ahmed's joke seems to have accepted the subject simply and published on his account a post in which anyone knows the owner of the warehouse to open it. But the joke and the soul completely changed when the Egyptian police responded and the Interior Ministry published its statement as…

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