Rana Raeis Exits Film "Saffah Al-Tagamoa"

Egyptian actress Rana Raeis will no longer be involved in the star-studded film "The Fifth Settlement Murderer" ("Saffah Al-Tagamoa") due to her health.

Raeis had dropped from the pic due to her recovery from a recent health crisis that left her hospitalized.

Written and directed by Mohamed Salah Al-Azab and produced by Ahmed El Sobky, the film features Ahmed El Fishawy playing Karim Selim, known in the media as the Saffah Al-Tagamoa.

Rounding out the cast are Cynthia Khalifeh, Mariam El Gendy, Lina Sophia, Entsar, Sabrien, Faten Saeed, Aya Selim, and Jessica Hossam.

This is the second project to be developed about the murderer. In June 2024, Azab, the scribe of the crime TV series "Saffah Al Giza", is penning the series. The 8-episode show is produced by Ahmed El Sobky and has actor Hassan El Raddad lined up to take the lead role.

Dubbed "the Fifth Settlement Murderer", in connection with a luxurious gated community on the outskirts of Cairo where he lived and killed his victims, Selim, a 36-year-old man and holder of a US passport, admitted during interrogation in May 2024 that he killed an unidentified number of women, other than the three whose bodies were discovered earlier that month.

In the next weeks, the bodies of the women were discovered separately, each unclothed in deserted areas in provinces outside Cairo, as their clothes were extracted in other faraway areas afterward.

The autopsy reports suggest that the three women were killed by the same person, as all showed similar signs of torture, including strangulation and flogging wounds. The evidence against the perpetrator also included a fingerprint on one of the women’s clothes. Laboratory tests of the components of their stomach and blood further indicated narcotics in their system.

Following investigations and the examination of CCTV footage in the areas leading to the location of the bodies, security forces managed to identify and apprehend the suspect.

The authorities confiscated two mobile phones and a laptop belonging to him, on which he videotaped the incidents committed inside a soundproof room at his flat allocated for his practices. The videos in question showed him performing intercourse with his victims after they died.

During interrogation, the suspect confessed that he knew his victims online, some of whom he claimed were courtesans. The suspect asked them to come over to his home, where he performed unusual sexual activities with them before he forced the women to consume drugs and killed them.

The suspect acquired a college degree from the most prestigious university in Egypt, the American University in Cairo, and had worked as a teacher at an international school before he quit his job. He created a TikTok channel where he taught American English.