The embassy of Saudi Arabia here has said that the Saudi national who fell to his death from the tenth floor of a residential block in Giza on Tuesday was trying to escape an Egyptian woman after responding to false calls for help. Ibrahim Al-Humayyed, the head of the embassy's Welfare Affairs department, said Thursday that a 45-year-old Egyptian woman called for help, but when the Saudi man arrived she demanded money from him and threatened him with a butcher's cleaver. He fell to his death as he tried to escape, Al-Humayyed said. Al-Humayyed denied reports in the Egyptian press claiming that the Saudi had been engaged in “immoral activities” at the time. “Eyewitnesses testified that he had been at the bottom of the building when the Egyptian woman appeared on the balcony screaming that there was a thief in her apartment, at which point the Saudi national went up to her flat to save her,” he said. “Once he was in, however, the woman locked the door behind him and took out a large knife and demanded money. When he tried to get away via the balcony to a neighboring balcony he slipped and fell to his death.” Al-Humayyed added that investigations were continuing and that he had “complete faith” in the Egyptian authorities. The body of the Saudi, he said, has been returned to the Kingdom.
