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Al-Marsad Newspaper: Citizen Ibrahim Al-Mutairi, who lived in Mecca, gave details of his tourist trip to Ethiopia in 1995, which turned into an accusation that he attempted to The assassination of the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

From hotel to prison

Al-Mutairi said: “I have traveled to 132 countries throughout my life as a traveler, but the first time I traveled to Ethiopia was in 1995 AD, and I do not know where Ethiopia is in the first place I met a person named Abdul Rahman Al-Zahrani in the hotel where I stayed, and he told me that we should look for a second new hotel.” A day in Addis Ababa and it was the Sheraton Hotel.”

Al-Mutairi said: “The second day we went to the hotel, and as soon as we reached the gate we felt a strange movement, and suddenly police officers came and took us into the box and then into prison the first time I traveled when I was young and I went to prison It was a scary situation in a remote place and there was no means of communication at that time.”

Assassination attempt on Hosni Mubarak

He continued: “You go into the cell and find it full of Arabs of all nationalities. It was the accusation that scared me the most. The accusation was an attempt to assassinate Hosni Mubarak, may God have mercy on him. It took 3 of the hardest days of my life, and my friend who was with me was devastated.”

From prison to a 45-day tourist trip

He continued: “They took us into the officer’s office and he looked at us and gave us the passports and he left for the north and I went to the Nile store and he visited all the places which you could visit and I sat in Ethiopia for 45 days, actually. “After this happened, my heart died.”