Egypt: When Virginity is More Important than Murder  · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Egypt is gripped with the story of a gruesome murder, in which two university students were killed, in the upscale Sixth of October City’s Sheikh Zayed district. One of the victims is the daughter of Moroccan singer Laila Ghofran.
This murder follows in the heels of yet another horrifying crime which claimed the life of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tameem, in Dubai, and in which an Egyptian businessman is accused of hiring a hitman to have her killed.
“Two girls were brutally killed in 6th of October city … But it became the talk of town because one of the victims is the daughter of 3rd degree Moroccan singer called Laila Ghofran,” writes Egyptian Chronicles.
And to make the incident more interesting to the readers, some papers started to spread rumors about the victims’ lifestyle.
Taboohat writes about how the media and society as a whole are dealing with the murder: