Mariam Moustafa
Mariam Moustafa
Mariam Moustafa Abdel Salam (Arabic: مريم مصطفى عبد السلام) was an 18 year-old Egyptian national and engineering student at Central College Nottingham in Nottingham, England. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]
Attack, Death, and Aftermath
At around 8:00pm (20:00) on the evening of 20 February 2018, Moustafa had been waiting for a bus near Victoria Centre when she was set upon and beaten up by a group of around ten Afro-British women in what is believed to be a racially-aggravated offence. The gang continued beating Moustafa even after they had all boarded the bus and until Moustafa lost consciousness, at which point the bus driver called an ambulance to transfer Moustafa to Queen's Medical Centre. Though initially discharged, Moustafa's condition deteriorated at home and on 21 February 2018 she was rushed to Nottingham City Hospital, where she was placed in an induced coma and ultimately succumbed to her injuries, including a cerebral hemorrhage, on 14 March 2018. A 17 year-old girl has been arrested in conjunction with the attack. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]
Moustafa's death has caused widespread outrage in her home country of Egypt, where Attorney general Nabil Sadek has ordered a probe into the attack, Immigration Minister Nabila Makram has demanded escalating punishment of the attackers, and both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Egypt) and the British Embassy in Cairo have condemned the attack. [undefined] [undefined]
Moustafa's family is also alleging negligence on the part of local authorities, claiming that police failed to follow up on a previous instance in which some of the same girls had previously attacked Moustafa and broken her sister's leg, and faulting Queen's Medical Centre for discharging Moustafa prematurely. Moustafa's mother posted video of the attack to social media. [undefined] [undefined] [undefined] [undefined]