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Diplomatic row with Egypt over student who died after racist girl gang attack
The death of an engineering student who has died after a brutal assault by a girl gang has sparked a diplomatic row with Egypt.
Mariam Moustafa, 18, was punched several times and dragged 20 metres by the group as she waited for a bus in Nottingham city centre.
The girls followed her on board and continued the attack until she lost consciousness, her family said.
She was initially discharged from The Queen’s Medical Centre and had to be rushed to Nottingham City Hospital the following day, February 21, where she spent 12 days in a coma.
Miss Moustafa’s devastated family believe the attack was racially motivated and revealed that she and her younger sister, Mallak, had been attacked before but the police had failed to act.
They branded the perpetrators “animals” for filming the fatal attack on mobile phones.
The incident has sparked outrage in Egypt, where the prosecutor-general has requested information about the probe into her death by British officials, according to the BBC.
The country is also planning to send a delegation of parliamentarians to the UK in the wake of the death, while the embassy called for those responsible for her death to be "brought to justice swiftly".
The hashtag "Mariam's rights will not be lost" has also been trending in Egypt.
Emad Abu Hussein, a lawyer from the Egyptian embassy in London, questioned why she was initially discharged from hospital “despite a severe cerebral haemorrhage”.
Mallak, 16, criticised Nottinghamshire Police for "missing vital warning signs" that she believes could have saved her life.
She said she had seen some of those involved "laughing about my sister's coma" on Instagram.
Miss Moustafa’s uncle, Amr ElHariry, 46, said two girls had attacked Marian and Mallak, breaking Mallak’s leg, four months prior to the assault which left her dead.
The businessman claimed her parents Nisreen, 41 and Mohamed Moustafa, 49, had reported the incident to police but that nothing was done.
He said of the second attack: “Whilst Mariam was lying in that hospital bed after nine operations, the girls who did it were taking selfies on Instagram and enjoying life.”
He said his niece had been walking down the street when a group of girls shouted at her, calling her “black rose”.
Mr ElHariry said his niece was admitted to hospital at around 9pm but discharged at 2am, even though she was still in pain.
"We are angry that the hospital discharged her in the first place and weren't able to spot she had a bleed on the brain,” he said.
Mallak said that when she and her sister had originally been attacked last August the perpetrators said it was because they had been staring at them.
"They're all younger than us, I think they aged between 15 and 17, I don't know who they are, and they go to a different school,” she said.
"No one did anything, something could've been done, and if the police did then she would still be here.”
The girls’ father, Muhammad Moustafa, who lives in Nottingham, said he believed the attack was racially-motivated.
"I just don't know why they would attack her, when she did nothing wrong,” he said.
Detectives said yesterday (THURS) there was no information to suggest the attack was motivated by hate but that they were “keeping an open mind”. They have been handed CCTV footage from the bus and have viewed the mobile phone footage.
The results of a post-mortem examination are expected today (FRI).
One 17-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm before Miss Moustafa died was bailed pending further investigation following the incident.
Police said several other juveniles had been interviewed.
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