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The Inherited Nightmare: Organ Trafficking Lies and the Family Betrayal That Kidnapped a 10-Year-Old · Crime Night

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, picture this Alexandria, Egypt. It's twenty fourteen, seven am,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're standing on this quiet street in the
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  Speaker 1: flicky area, it's mostly just normal morning sounds, right, shutters opening,
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  Speaker 1: maybe some traffic far off, teacups clinking. For a ten
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  Speaker 1: year old, omit, it's just his walk, same walk, every day,
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  Speaker 1: short alone to the bus, stock routine. But the last
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  Speaker 1: three mornings something felt off wrong. I'm it. He's a
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  Speaker 1: smart kid, observant. He noticed someone, a man low cap,
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  Speaker 1: sort of lurking near the corner, watching him try not
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  Speaker 1: to be seen, but well failing. And then the fourth day,
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  Speaker 1: that shadow it starts moving towards an Ohmed Seeson, coming closer.
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  Speaker 1: As he rounds the corner, he just bolts, pure adrenaline,
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  Speaker 1: sprinting for the bus stop. But his mother, she's watching
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  Speaker 1: from the window upstairs, and she sees it all happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrifying. This strange gray car pulls up fast, really suspicious,
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  Speaker 1: no license plates at all. The man grabs Ahmed, shoves
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  Speaker 1: him inside, the door slams and then silence. Well almost
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  Speaker 1: the kid screams, but instantly it's just drowned out. Loud
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  Speaker 1: music blasting from a cassette player in the car, just
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  Speaker 1: gone right.
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  Speaker 2: That sound, the music, that's calculated. It tells you this
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  Speaker 2: wasn't spontaneous, sudden, yes, but planned, using noise to cover everything.
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  Speaker 2: The neighbors, they hear the mother screaming, they rush out,
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  Speaker 2: But what can they tell the police.
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  Speaker 1: Not much?
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  Speaker 2: A gray car, a man in a cap already vanished.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's thin.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the twist, the thing that makes this even
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  Speaker 1: more chilling. Even in that moment being forced into the car,
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  Speaker 1: Ahmed kind of recognized the guy. It's dimly under the cap.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't random, not a stranger snatching a kid.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the piece that changes everything, doesn't it. That
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  Speaker 2: flicker of recognition. It means this isn't some external threat,
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  Speaker 2: not really. It means the investigation is going to lead
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  Speaker 2: back somewhere deeply uncomfortable, probably right into their own circle,
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  Speaker 2: the place of parents are insisting is impossible exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So today that's our mission. We're going deep into the
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  Speaker 1: facts of Ahmed's four month nightmare. It's a story of
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  Speaker 1: well creed, incredible denial and family betrayal that honestly, you
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  Speaker 1: couldn't make up. It's beyond belief, so that the police
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  Speaker 1: in Alexandria, they jump on it immediately. They check their veillance,
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  Speaker 1: confirmed the car description that Gray Sadan no plates. It's real.
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  Speaker 1: But when they talk to the parents, Ahmed's mother and father,
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  Speaker 1: it's like hitting a wall. They're adamant, no enemies, no fights,
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  Speaker 1: no one, absolutely no one they suspect could do this.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a huge challenge for investigators. Right from the
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  Speaker 2: get go. You know, they're looking at a clearly planned crime,
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  Speaker 2: but the primary victims, the parents, are convinced it has
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  Speaker 2: to be strangers. Meanwhile, Ahmed, they apparently made him drink
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  Speaker 2: something keep him quiet. He wakes up hours later, strange house,
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  Speaker 2: totally isolated.
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  Speaker 1: And his captors. They don't waste any time. They start
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  Speaker 1: laying down the fear tactic immediately. They tell this terrified
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  Speaker 1: ten year old, you are kidnapped by orders of the Sheiks,
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  Speaker 1: and if he disobeys, they'll kill him.
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  Speaker 2: Pure psychological control right from the start, make him compliant through.
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  Speaker 1: Terror, then silence for four days. Imagine the agony for
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  Speaker 1: the parents. Then the phone rings three am, a strange voice,
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  Speaker 1: we have your son and one million Egyptian pounds one
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  Speaker 1: million egp.
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  Speaker 2: Which is just a massive sum, impossible for them to
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  Speaker 2: get together quickly. But honestly, the money almost seems secondary
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  Speaker 2: to the threat they make. Next, this is where it
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  Speaker 2: gets really dark. The voice says they're part of a
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  Speaker 2: huge human organ trafficking gang, one of the biggest, and
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  Speaker 2: they explicitly threaten to sell Ahmid's organs if the money
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  Speaker 2: isn't paid fast. Plus the warning don't involve the police.
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  Speaker 1: That specific threat the organ harvesting. It's designed for maximum fear.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it to paralyze them? But the father incredibly makes
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  Speaker 1: a brave call. He reports it tells the police immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Good for him, and the police trace that call. It
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  Speaker 2: confirms the kidnappers didn't stick around Alexandria. Nope, the call
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  Speaker 2: came from way out in Kafrell Doller Governorate. They fled instantly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the police are chasing leads, thinking organ traffickers.
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  Speaker 1: But then everything just stops because Ahmed himself figures it out.
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  Speaker 1: After that ransom call, He's lying there, terrified in this
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  Speaker 1: strange house and he hears our nearby. He hears a voice,
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  Speaker 1: a voice he knows perfectly well, the person behind this horror.
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  Speaker 1: It's his aunt, his father's own sister.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, So that vague recognition of the man in.
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  Speaker 1: The car exactly, it clicks into place. The man in
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  Speaker 1: the cap who grabbed him, that was Shahat. The aunt's
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  Speaker 1: husband is a monkle in law.
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  Speaker 2: The shock for that child realizing it wasn't strangers it
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  Speaker 2: was them family, it's just unimaginable, unthinkable betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: And the cruelty. It wasn't just neglect. It feels targeted.
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  Speaker 1: His own aunt was horrible to him, made him sleep
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  Speaker 1: on the floor, gave him spoiled food.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not just keeping a hostage. That's malice. It
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  Speaker 2: points to something deeply personal, some underlying resentment being acted
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  Speaker 2: out on the child.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. So they could say in that first house, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: communications go dark for about a week. Then they tell
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  Speaker 1: all meds they're taking him home, get his hopes up.
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  Speaker 1: Totally cruel. Instead, they drive for hours, leave Kafrel del Wir,
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  Speaker 1: go even further away, deep into Zagazig governorate, another house,
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  Speaker 1: apparently even worse, more remote. Then about three weeks in,
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  Speaker 1: Shah's partner takes Ahmed somewhere else again, forces him to
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  Speaker 1: call his dad. A desperate urgent call. Ahmed has to
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  Speaker 1: say he's being tortured, that the kidney operation is happening
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow unless the money arrives in hours.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure is immense. And look at the movement Alexandria
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  Speaker 2: to Kafrell Dowir than Zagazig. That's jumping across governorate's It
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  Speaker 2: shows planning, sophistication and avoiding being traced. The police would
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  Speaker 2: recognize this as an organized group's skilled at evasion, creating
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  Speaker 2: geographical noise as we sometimes call it. They're using that
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  Speaker 2: terrifying organ trafficking story basically as a smokescreen for what
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  Speaker 2: seems like a financially motivated crime. But with this incredibly
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  Speaker 2: complex evasion plan, and.
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  Speaker 1: All this time the ant the sheer nerve of it.
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  Speaker 1: She's calling her brother, Ahmed's dad, regularly pretending to be
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  Speaker 1: worried sick, asking if the police have any leads.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, just the audacity, But the police are closing in slowly.
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  Speaker 2: They get a break from that initial surveillance footage. The
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  Speaker 2: man in the cap. He strongly resembles someone known to
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  Speaker 2: hang around with hot the uncle in law. Apparently this
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  Speaker 2: associate was known for always wearing a cap and let's
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  Speaker 2: say questionable activities, right.
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  Speaker 1: So this connection it's getting hier. The police bring the
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  Speaker 1: father in. They have to ask him directly, do you
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  Speaker 1: suspect your sister? Do you suspect her husband, Shahat? And
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  Speaker 1: the father still completely refuses to believe it, says it's impossible, unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot accept his own sister could be involved, especially
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  Speaker 1: not in something as horrific as organ trafficking, which is
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  Speaker 1: the threat still dominating his mind.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that denial is powerful. You wonder if the sheer
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  Speaker 2: horror of the organ threat created this mental block. It's
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  Speaker 2: easier to believe in a monster from outside than one
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  Speaker 2: inside the family. This cognitive dissonance, it really ties the
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  Speaker 2: police's hands strategically speaking exactly.
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  Speaker 1: They realize he just can't face it yet, so they
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  Speaker 1: shift tactics. They tell the father, okay, keep talking to
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  Speaker 1: the gang like normal, play along. They hope to trap
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  Speaker 1: them that way without forcing the father into an open
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  Speaker 1: confrontation he's not ready for. Then, about two months in
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  Speaker 1: the kidnappers get nervous to get about locations. They call
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  Speaker 1: tell the father to bring the ransom to Port's said,
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  Speaker 1: but almost immediately they call back. Change of plans meet
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  Speaker 1: and Sinai instead.
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  Speaker 2: More geographical jumps port said than Sinai. That's four, then
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  Speaker 2: five different governorates. They've dragged this through.
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  Speaker 1: They're definitely feeling the heat, trying to confuse any police surveillance.
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  Speaker 2: Desperate moves, and then the exchange attempt basically falls apart.
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  Speaker 2: The father has to admit, look, I've only got two
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand AGP, not the million. It's all I could
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  Speaker 2: raise the kidnappers. They flip out threaten to kill Ahmed
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  Speaker 2: right then, and then they send a video. Oh no, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he shows Ahmed. He's crying, hysterical, begging his parents to
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  Speaker 2: pay the money, talking of the operation. And you know
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  Speaker 2: who's standing just off camera coaching him, telling him what
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  Speaker 2: to say. The aunt in Shahan is aunt and shahat
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  Speaker 2: that video, that's just pete cruelty, an absolute proof. So
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  Speaker 2: after three incredibly long months, the police team is practically
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  Speaker 2: living this case. They're hitting locations in three different provinces
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  Speaker 2: where they think Ahmed might be, but every time.
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  Speaker 1: They've just missed him. The place is empty, recently abandoned.
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  Speaker 1: They know they're close, but always a step behind.
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  Speaker 2: They finally have enough concrete evidence no question, it's the
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  Speaker 2: ant and Shahat. They bring the father in again, lay
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  Speaker 2: it all out, irrefutable proof.
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  Speaker 1: And still still he struggles. He clings to this idea
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  Speaker 1: that maybe his sister's being forced, maybe she's being blackmailed
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  Speaker 1: by the real organ traffickers. He just can't make that
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  Speaker 1: final leap. And then another layer gets at it. The
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  Speaker 1: father learns that Shahat, his brother in law, is a
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  Speaker 1: heavy drug addict, and then he was using drugs openly
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  Speaker 1: right there in front of Ahmed and even in front
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  Speaker 1: of his own children during the whole four months.
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  Speaker 2: That's a critical piece. It shifts the motive slightly, doesn't it,
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  Speaker 2: from purely calculated greed to perhaps something more chaotic desperation
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  Speaker 2: fueled by addiction, needing money for drugs, Shahat's addiction, his influence,
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  Speaker 2: combined with whatever resentment the aunt already had, it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like that's what tip her over into this truly destructive.
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  Speaker 1: Plans like it. So four months and one week passed,
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  Speaker 1: then a breakthrough, a solid tip. Sha Hot's been spotted.
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  Speaker 1: He's working at a coacherie shop, of all places, in el.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, elm Marks. That's Province number six. They dragged that
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  Speaker 2: poor child through six different regions of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Six unbelievable. The end finally comes after four months and
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  Speaker 1: twenty two days. Police hit the coachery shop, arrest Shahat
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  Speaker 1: on the spot. At the exact same time, another team
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  Speaker 1: raids the house where the aunt is. They arrest her
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  Speaker 1: and they find Ahmed. They rescue him, tell them straight away,
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  Speaker 1: you're safe. We're taking you back to Alexandria, back home.
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  Speaker 2: And the motive after all that complexity, the Oregon trafficking line,
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  Speaker 2: the constant moving, what was it really about? Interrogation, they
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  Speaker 2: confess the whole thing, the six province run, the terror
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  Speaker 2: of the lies. It was all cooked up over inheritance,
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  Speaker 2: Alworth inheritance and the ironies. Absolutely gut wrench. The aunt
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  Speaker 2: found out later that the inheritance issues she was so
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  Speaker 2: obsessed about the ones driving this whole nightmare. She could
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  Speaker 2: have sorted them out easily just by talking to her brother,
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  Speaker 2: Ahmed's dad. It was a faailable to Wow. She chose
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  Speaker 2: this path, followed her attict husband's lead based on bad information,
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  Speaker 2: maybe greed, maybe a resentment, and inflicted this trauma on
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  Speaker 2: her own nephew for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It just highlights the destructive power of unresolved family conflict,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it. You have the father's agony having to testify
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  Speaker 1: against his own sister, and then you have the aunt
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  Speaker 1: apparently brazenly saying she did it to defend her inheritance. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the three of them, the aunt, Shahat, and that partner
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  Speaker 1: who helped arrested charge brought to trial. So let's just
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  Speaker 1: boil it down. A seven am walk turns into a nightmare,
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  Speaker 1: A fake one million EGP demand backed by a terrifying
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  Speaker 1: organ harvesting threat, a desperate chase across six different governorates,
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  Speaker 1: and the engine behind it all a bitter, selfish dispute
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  Speaker 1: over family inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What really gets me is how something within a family,
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  Speaker 2: something that should be about connection, can curdle into such
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  Speaker 2: extreme malice. Sibling resentment, addiction, misinformation, all converging to inflict
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  Speaker 2: this incredible trauma on a child caught in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chilling look at the darker side of human nature.
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  Speaker 1: Really, so thinking about this, what does it mean for you? Listening?
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  Speaker 1: We saw Ahmed's father trapped in denial for four months, right,
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  Speaker 1: unable to believe the threat came from within, needing it
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  Speaker 1: to be some outside monster, right.
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  Speaker 2: So the question I'm left with is this, Considering that
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  Speaker 2: deep protective denial, even when the evidence starts piling up,
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  Speaker 2: what does it actually take? What does it take for
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  Speaker 2: any of us to finally accept the worst, the most
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  Speaker 2: unthinkable truth about someone we love, even when the facts
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  Speaker 2: are staring us right in the face.