Court Refers Traffic Boy to Juvenile Detention Center

On Sunday, Cairo Juvenile Court sentenced a young boy, who is known as " Traffic boy" be placed in a juvenile detention center, in addition to confirming a sentence of one year in prison against the boy's friends and a fine of 10,000 each.

The “Public Prosecution” has previously detained, as part of the investigations, those who were in the company of the child for four days over charges of possessing cannabis and insulting a policeman in Cairo’s Maadi district.

The case involves an incident that went viral on social media last month, where one of the boys is seen in a video clip driving a car despite not being of driving age and verbally insulting a low-ranking police officer who asked to see his driving license.

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The video clip ends with the 13-year-old boy speeding away with the car, causing the policeman to fall on his back as he attempted to register the license plates of the vehicle.

The clip raised a public uproar in the country, especially when it was revealed that the boy’s father is a member of the judiciary.

The defendant in the case, who has been dubbed “traffic boy,” also faces the charge of driving a vehicle without a license. The car owner has also been referred to the court for allowing the child to drive the car illegally.

The prosecution said in a statement in November that the boy claimed that the car was no longer owned by his father, who sold it to a family friend, and that he took the keys in secret for one last ride with his friends, adding that he did not know the new owner.

The boy said that he fled the police because he did not have a license, and feared getting a ticket. He also claimed not to know who uploaded the video online.