Egyptian social media users have hailed a man who inadvertently broadcast his face to thousands of people while stealing a journalist's phone as

Egyptian man arrested after broadcasting face during robbery

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2021-10-20 18:00:14

Egyptian social media users have hailed a man who inadvertently broadcast his face to thousands of people while stealing a journalist's phone as "the coolest thief in Egypt".

Mahmoud Ragheb, a reporter for the news site Youm7, was livestreaming a report on social media when the thief drove by on a motorbike and seized his phone.

According to Youm7, the incident happened on a bridge in Egypt's fourth-largest city, Shubra Al-Khaimah, where Mr Ragheb was reporting on the after-effects of a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled parts of Egypt.

Mr Ragheb was filming the bridge when his phone was grabbed roughly from his hands by the unnamed thief. Once the camera had stopped shaking it revealed the face of a young man smoking a cigarette and checking slightly nervously behind him to see if anyone was in pursuit.

However, there was little sympathy for the intrepid reporter's plight, with most social media users focussing on the thief's relaxed demeanour as he snatched the phone and continued to pull on his cigarette as he made his escape.