Egyptian Court Sentences Chemist and Brother to 15 Years for Converting Water Purification Chemicals into Explosives

A Cairo criminal court has sentenced a water company employee and his chemist brother to 15 years in prison for stealing and repurposing water treatment chemicals to manufacture explosives.

• The employee stole chlorine and potassium chloride from a water treatment plant and provided them to his brother.
• The brother, a chemist, processed the chemicals into explosive mixtures and sold them illegally.
• The court imposed a 500,000 Egyptian pound fine on each defendant and delivered the verdict under Egypt's anti-terrorism law.