An Egyptian lynched in Lebanon · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Mohamed Mossallam has been lynched by the people of the Lebanese village Katramaya. Mossallam is an Egyptian citizen living in Lebanon, who has been accused of murdering an elderly couple and their two grandchildren, aged seven and nine. He was also suspected of raping a 15-year-old girl in the same village.
Egyptian blogger Zeinobia wrote about the incident, and the available videos and photographs of the lynching on the internet.
She said:
Some bloggers believe that Mossallam deserved it, since he was a criminal, while others say he was just a suspect. Zeinobia continued to wonder if the people of Katramaya did this because of the lack of trust in their judicial system:
Tamer Mowafy, on the other hand, tried to find excuses for the angry Lebanese villagers. He wrote:
The current tension between the Egyptian regime and the Lebanese militia Hizbullah, dragged some people here and there to accuse such tension to be the reason behind the Ketermaya incident. Yet Tamer Mowafy doesn't think they are related:
He then wonders how a village, whose citizens are mainly Christians and Sunnis, could be driven by the tension between Egypt and the Shia party:
Sara – a Lebanese citizen – commented on Zeinobia's post, expressing her disagreement to the angry mob's villagers way of taking revenge:
And finally Sosso commented on Nawara Negm's post [Ar] about the same incident, stating that this incident has nothing to do with Egypt or Lebanon. We have to see it from a different angle, and angle that only sees humans regardless of their nationalities. She said: