Hadi Fouad Attia
Hadi, 22 was the youngest among his brothers, “Fadi” and “Shady,”. They grew up in their family home on Shubra Street, northern of Cairo. Hady was a church goer from a young age, according to his mother, as he was keen to pray, attend Sunday schools and participate in church activities. Hady loved life, it was too early for him to go. Hady obtained a bachelor’s degree in systems and information in 2009 and began to move between jobs in search of a better opportunity in his field.
On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Hadi returned home early after resigning from the company he was working for. His mother Mrs. Mervat recalled that he was sleeping when he heard the shouting from the demonstrations on Shubra Street, so he woke up and watched with his family from the balcony of the house and kept observing the crowds until they disappeared from the view. He went to put on his clothes and told his family that he was bored and wanted to go to meet his friends, so his mother did not think that he would go to join the march because he was not interested in politics and had no political activity. However, Hadi agreed with his friends that they would meet in the Qalali area in the center of Cairo to join the march, and soon they arrived and found many thugs hitting the march. Hadi’s friends decided to return and not continue and tried to take him with them, but he refused and insisted on continuing the march until he reached Maspero.
His father, Mr. Fouad, remembers that day and says that he was tired and slept a little after returning from work, as he suffers from weak heart muscle, which prevented him from joining the march. He woke up from his sleep and didn’t find Hadi at home, he worried about him, specially when he learned that the army forces were hitting the march at Maspero and tried to call him, but he found another person answering the phone and telling him that Hadi had been injured and he is now in the Coptic Hospital. Hadi’s brothers immediately rushed to the hospital before their father, but they had already learned that Hadi is no longer with them. When they reached the hospital, they found Hadi’s body lying on the ground. The hospital was not equipped to receive so many casualties and wounded, and it had a huge deficit in providing the most basic aid. People began trying to bring ice to preserve the bodies and medical equipment to help the injured, but the thugs in the Al-Dhahir and Sharabiyah (nearby eras from downtown Cairo) attacked those who tried to help. When Hadi’s father arrived at the hospital and saw his son’s body, it was not the only tragedy, the management of the hospital told him that he could receive the body quickly if he agreed to write a fabricated report of the cause of death. However, the father refused and insisted on a true report to be issued that the true cause of Hadi’s death, and they conducted an autopsy, and the cause of death was proven in his medical report with a gunshot wound that entered from behind the right shoulder and exited the lower jaw and destroyed his rib cage.