Shattered Honor, Stolen Lives: The Minya Triple Murder Fueled by Affair and Village Gossip

In 2012, a brutal crime in Minya, Egypt, shocked the public when three of trader Karem’s children were found stabbed inside their home, with only the eldest initially surviving. Police at first faced conflicting information and Karem’s insistence on his own innocence. Investigators later uncovered that Karem was having an affair with a married neighbor, Reem. Her brother Saeed, who lived in Cairo, confessed that he traveled to Minya intending to kill Karem to “restore the family’s honor,” but when he found Karem absent, he instead murdered the children in a revenge-driven attack.