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August 18, 2025 11 mins
Yasmine, a 17-year-old girl, was brought to the hospital with clear signs of abuse but was already deceased. At first, her father claimed it was the tragic result of a minor dispute, insisting he had only slapped her with his hand after she acted provocatively. But witnesses offered a different story. Some spoke of his history of drug addiction and abuse, while others suggested a forced engagement could have been a hidden motive. Her sister and fiancé described another version of events. They said Yasmine had a close, loving bond with her father. According to them, the conflict began when she visited a male friend’s house. Her fiancé, upset by this, informed her father. The situation escalated into a confrontation that turned deadly. In the end, the father admitted he struck Yasmine with a heavy gas hose. He said he was provoked, that his intent was only to discipline her, not kill her. Overwhelmed with remorse, he expressed that he deserved punishment. Yasmine’s death became a painful story of family conflict, mistrust, and irreversible loss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Imagine this the air inside an emergency room late at night.
It's got that you know, sharp disinfectant smell, mixed with
the low constant hum of machines. Everything's bathed in that harsh, ful,
orescent white. Medical staff are moving fast, their voice is low, urgent, focused.
Then through the doors comes a stretcher on it a
young girl, maybe seventeen, Yasmin. She's just incredibly still. The

(00:24):
team just swarms around her. They're pros, they know the drills,
trying desperately to find any spark of life. But you
can see it dawning on them in their eyes, that
awful dread settling in Yasmin. She's been gone for hours.
Oh god. And then this sound rips through the quiet,
just this raw animal wail of grief. It's her father, Ahmed,
he brought her in. He just collapses and he's crying

(00:45):
out over and I lost my daughter with my own hands.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
And while they're dealing with this horror, they see it
the mark sign Yasmin's body clear signs of torture. It's
immediately obvious this wasn't any accident's foul play. So they
alert the authorities right away. Okay, let's try to unpack this.
What you've just heard sets the stage for a really
tragic story. July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. Yasmin's death
just throws her whole community into this, the storm of suspicion, rumors,

(01:12):
conflicting stories. So today we're doing a deep dive into
Yasmin's life and her death. We're going to look at
those first reports, peel back all the layers of testimony,
and try to understand how what seemed like a family argument,
you know, got twisted by outside words and exploded into this,
this irreversible tragedy. It really makes you think about trust
and listening and the power words can have.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, what's really striking right from the start is how
fast those first ideas can become the story, even when
the facts aren't all there. So our mission today is
to cut through that all the noise. We'll explore how
different people saw things so differently, sometimes you know, based
on what they already thought about the family or the situation.
And we'll really focus on how one misunderstanding, deliberately it seems,

(01:55):
fanned into flames by someone else, could just have these
absolutely devastating results change lives forever so stick with us
as we piece together what really happened, try to find
some clarity and all this loss.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
So the first statement Ahmed gave the police, he was
obviously distraught, but the story itself sounded almost simple. He
talked about a quote simple argument with yasmine, a minor disagreement.
His version was he hit her with his hand. Then
he went to pray issha the evening prayer, came back,
found her unresponsive. He thought she just fainted, you know,

(02:27):
So he panicked and rushed through the hospital.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
But the immediate problem was that just didn't.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Fit, not at all. The injuries the medical team saw
severe bleeding, circulatory collapse. That's not from a single slab
or someone fainting.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
No, it pointed to something far, far more brutal, a
serious assault.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
So the police start asking questions in the neighborhood, and
this is where it gets really messy, really fast.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, it's like they hit this wall of contradictions straight away.
The community was just completely split. He had some neighbors saying,
Ahmed was, you know, a decent guy, a responsible father,
worked hard at this scrap metal place. They said, sure,
he could be irritable, argue with other adults sometimes, but
they'd never heard him fighting with his kids. For them,
him hurting Yasmin unthinkable.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
But then literally other neighbors painted this entirely different picture,
a much darker one. They described Ahmed as well an addict,
someone who regularly beat his children. One woman was very specific,
said she heard him yelling at Yasmin hitting her that
very day.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
She even claimed his wife, Yasmin's mother, had left years
ago because of his abuse and addiction, and that Yasmin,
being the oldest, had to basically raise her younger siblings,
even support them financially.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
That's a huge burden for a teenager exactly.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
And on top of all that, this rumor started spreading
like wildfire. The rumor was that Yasmin was being forced
into an engagement she didn't want that. She wanted to
stay in school, finish her education, and her refusal to
Mary was supposedly what led to the fatal beating.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's really something, isn't it. How these two completely opposing
narratives just took root immediately, one of the loving father,
the other the violent addict. It kind of shows how
people might latch onto a story that fix what they
already believe maybe or what seems plausible in their view
of the world. Yeah, and these really strong, conflicting opinions
just created this huge divide right from the beginning, made

(04:23):
finding the actual truth incredibly difficult.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Okay, But then the story takes a major turn. The
fog starts to lift a bit, and it's thanks to
one crucial person, Yasmin's younger sister. Not a amidst all
these rumors and accusations, Na comes forward and her testimony
isn't just another story. It starts to build a coherent
picture and it directly challenges a lot of those initial
really shocking claims.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, so what does she say?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, she described her father Ahmed completely differently, not as
an abuser, not as an addict, but is supportive, loving,
their only refuge, she called him, especially after her parents
divorced five years before, and she made a point of
saying the divorce was amicable, mutual, not him being abusive.
She flat out denied any addiction problems or ongoing fights

(05:08):
in the house.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
That directly contradates those other neighbors.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Directly, and maybe most importantly, Nada clarified the engagement situation.
She said Yasmin truly loved her fiance, she willingly accepted
the proposal. That whole forced marriage rumor completely untrue according
to Nada.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Hmm, so that just blows a hole in that major theory,
doesn't it. If the family situation wasn't abusive, if she
wasn't being forced into marriage, then what on earth happened?
What led to this?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Exactly and not? As testimony continues, she revealed something that
seemed minor at the time months earlier, but turned out
to be well, fatefully important. Okay, So, before Yasmin got engaged,
her close friend's uncle had actually proposed marriage to her.
Yasmin politely turned him down. It was maybe a bit awkward,
but you know, it passed. She and the friends stayed close, right.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Seems simple enough.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Then the day Yasmin died, she and this same friend
went to the market together. The friend needed to borrow
one hundred EGP, just a small amount. Later that day,
Yasmin went with her friend back to her friend's house
just to collect the money she'd lent her being helpful,
trusting her friend makes sense. And then as Yasmin was
leaving her friend's street, her fiance.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Saw her ah and he knew about the uncle.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
He knew the uncle, the one who'd proposed earlier lived
there or was connected to that house. Yes, so seeing
Yasmin on that specific street it sets off alarm bells
for him. But instead of just talking to Yasmin asking
her what was going on.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Which would have cleared it all up, presumably.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Presumably Yeah, he made the statement later saying he prefers
to speak to man, not women, so he didn't talk
to her. He went straight to Ahmed Yasmin's father. Oh boy,
and the way he presented it, his words, as Ahmed
himself later described it, were meant to and did heed
him up.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
He basically implied Yasmin was somewhere she shouldn't be doing
something inappropriate by being near that particular house, planting the
seed of doubt, this suspicion disguised his concern.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow. So he used that prior proposal, that connection to
the uncle, to twist the situation. It's a classic, awful
example of triangulation, isn't it, inserting himself between father and
daughter with information designed to inflame.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Absolutely, it comes home, and he's not just angry, he's enraged,
completely consumed by what the fiance told him he confronts
Jasmine immediately and not to say he has man calmly,
clearly explained everything. I just went to get the money
I lent my friend.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
But he wasn't listening.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
No, his anger, fueled entirely by the fiance's biased, incendiary account,
just took over. Not it called it a devil's hour,
just this moment of complete, uncontrollable rage. He started hitting
her repeatedly, and they just left her there on the floor.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
And the most heartbreaking part, she.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Was still alive then, Yes, according to Nada Yasmin was
still conscious when he walked away to go pray Esha.
He seemed to think she was just stun maybe knocked out.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
He left her there.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
He left her there, went to pray. When he came back,
started calling her name, she didn't respond. Not had described
his reaction then, total shock, despair. He started hitting his
own head against the wall, just utterly unable to process
what he'd done in that fit of fury. The irreversible reality.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
God, the sequence is just horrifying. The misunderstanding, the fiance's intervention,
the explosion.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Of rage, and the investigation kept digging, pushing amed on
the inconsistencies. His story just didn't hold up against the evidence. Finally,
under more questioning, he broke. He confessed the truth, and
it shattered that initial story of a simple handstrike.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
What did he say? What was the weapon?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
It wasn't his hand. He admitted he used the heavy
gas hose, a cord dome bodhagaz, a thick heavy ose.
Said he used it to discipline her. That was his
word for going to that house without asking him first.
But he kept coming back to it again and again.
His daughter's fiance's words had provoked him. They heated him up.
He really insisted the fiance's account was the snark, the

(09:02):
thing that pushed him over the edge.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
The weight of regret in his confession must have been immense,
overwhellingly so.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
By all accounts, he kept saying he never ever meant
to hurt her, emphasizing how much he loved her. He
expressed this agonizing wish for Yasmin to somehow forgive him,
and in his despair he apparently said he wished he
could be executed immediately, just completely unable to live with
what he'd done.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
It sounds less like calculated malice and more like a
catastrophic failure of emotional control ignited by someone else's words,
leading to this outcome he just couldn't fathom.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Or accept exactly. And as things stand now, Ahmed is
detained pending the full investigation and likely referral to court.
It's just a total wreck of a family stemming from
that cascade of bad information and uncontrollable anger. Yeah, so
what do we take away from this? What does this
awful story mean for us? Listening now? I think Yasmin's
story is just such a stark, really painful reminder of

(09:57):
how powerful words can be good and for destruction. It
shows how easily an unverified story, especially one that plays
on fears or biases, can just bypass truth and lead
straight to tragedy mm hmm. This young woman's life was
just extinguished, not out of some long planned evil, it seems,
but from this fatal mix unchecked rage, a terrible misunderstanding,
and yes, that deliberate external push from the fiance. It

(10:20):
really makes you think about how narratives catch on even
with conflicting facts swirling around, how quickly people pick sides
based on in complete.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Pictures, and if we zoom out look at the bigger
picture here, Yasmin's story really hammers home how vital trust is,
especially with the people closest to you, and the real
danger in letting someone else's narrative, someone else's interpretation, dictate
your reaction. Before reacting, especially in anger, based on what
someone else tells you about a loved one, we have

(10:48):
to pause, We have to seek the truth directly, ask
the questions ourselves, and maybe most importantly, we have to
trust the people we love enough to actually believe their explanation,
to give them that chance, that benefit the doubt that
Yasmen tragically never got. Yeah, because the cost of not
doing that, as we see here so painfully, it's immeasurable,
it's irreversible. So maybe the thing to consider is think

(11:09):
about the weight your own words carry, and think about
the trust you place in the words of others, especially
when those words stir up anger or suspicion. In those
moments of doubt, who do you choose to believe first,
and what might be the real consequences of that choice.
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