CAIRO: The luxury Cairo villa of Egyptian soccer star Mohamed Salah was burgled over the weekend.
Two police officials told the Associated Press on Monday the burglars stole only cable TV receivers from the winger’s villa in the upmarket Tagamoa area, some 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Cairo city center.
A cooking gas cylinder in the Liverpool player’s garden proved too heavy for the burglars to steal, the officials said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak with the media.
Authorities were first called to the house after a close family member noticed on Saturday evening that one of the windows was open, the officials said.
An investigation into the robbery is ongoing and no arrests have yet been made.
Salah was the first Egyptian to win the English Premier League after joining Liverpool in 2018 from Roma. Salah, who hails from the delta town of Nagrig, is Liverpool’s all-time leading scorer in the league.
Mohamed Salah’s Cairo villa burgled say Egypt police
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Mohamed Salah’s Cairo villa burgled say Egypt police
- Authorities were first called to the house after a family member noticed on Saturday evening that one of the windows was open
Iran releases on bail two reformists arrested after protests: local media
- Reformists traditionally call for more social freedoms and the establishment of a civil society
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have released on bail two senior reformist figures who were arrested in recent days following anti-government protests in January, local media reported.
“Javad Emam and Ebrahim Asgharzadeh were released a few minutes ago after posting bail,” their lawyer, Hojjat Kermani, said in an interview with the ISNA news agency published on Thursday evening.
Asgharzadeh is a former member of parliament and Emam is the spokesman of the Reformist Front, the main coalition of the reformist camp.
They were accused of “undermining national unity” and “coordinating with enemy propaganda,” the Fars news agency reported at the time of their arrests.
Reformists traditionally call for more social freedoms and the establishment of a civil society and backed current president Masoud Pezeshkian during his 2024 campaign.
The lawyer expressed hope that the release of Azar Mansouri, head of the Reform Front since 2023 could come “in the next few days when her arrest warrant is revoked.”
Mansouri, 60, an adviser to reformist former president Mohammad Khatami, was arrested on Sunday alongside two other reformists.
The arrests come weeks after deadly protests erupted across the country, in which thousands of people died and many more were more arrested.
In 2009, Emam was one of the campaign managers for Mir Hossein Mousavi, a leading figure in the Iranian opposition and former prime minister, who has been under house arrest since 2011.
