July 18, 2025

Magdalena Zuk: Marsa Alam, Egypt

Magdalena Zuk: Marsa Alam, Egypt
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We’re taking a short break and using this time to amplify the voices of other creators we love in the true crime space. This week we’re bringing you a story from abroad by Jaimie Beebe of The Last Trip.

On a solo holiday in Marsa Alam, Egypt in April 2017, 27‑year‑old Polish beautician Magdalena Zuk experienced a troubling mental health episode. Hospitalized three days into her trip, she attempted to escape and tragically fell from a hospital window—dying hours later in Hurghada. Her death, officially ruled a suicide by Egyptian authorities, sparked widespread speculation back in Poland, including rumors of foul play, sex trafficking, and cover-ups amid concerns over Egypt's tourism image.

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be your tour guide recreating someone's last days in paradise

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long flight gets where they want to be, let's prepare

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for takeoff. On April thirtieth, twenty seventeen, twenty seven year

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old Magdalena Zook fell to her death from a hospital

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window in Egypt, just days into a week long holiday.

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This case is rampant with conspiracy theories including sex, trafficking, murder, drugs,

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and suicide. What really happened to Magdalena Zuk? Why are

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there so many rumors about this case? And is Egypt

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safe to visit? Egypt is absolutely on my travel bucket list.

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Who doesn't want to see the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the

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Luxor Temple, the Nile River, the Red Sea, or the

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White Desert. I looked at photos of Egypt and geography

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books as a kid and dreamed of going there. The

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most famous Egypt tourist attractions are the iconic Pyramids and

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the Sphinx at Giza. Both are located just outside Cairo,

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with the Pyramids being the last surviving wonder of the

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ancient world. They were constructed as monumental tombs to house

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the bodies of deceased pharaohs and their treasures, as well

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as to facilitate their journey to the afterlife, according to

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ancient Egyptian beliefs. The large limestone statue with the body

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of a lion and the head of a human a

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hybrid creature combining elements of a lion symbolizing strength and

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power and a human head symbolizing intelligence and divine authority.

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Its position facing the sun symbolizes rebirth and renewal. Those

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are two things I cannot wait to see in person.

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But what has tourism been like in Egypt? In the

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late nineteenth century, tourism was mostly European travelers that wanted

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to explore the mysteries of ancient Egypt, especially after they

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opened the Sioux's Canal in eighteen sixty nine, connecting the

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Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. The early twentieth century

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saw an increase in organized tourism like travel agencies and

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tour operators. Around this time, the Egyptian government recognized the

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economic potential of tourism and began investing into it with resorts, hotels,

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and other accommodations. In the mid to late twentieth century,

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there was a tourism boom and millions of visitors started

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exploring the ancient wonders and cruising down the Nile River.

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But in the nineteen sixties and seventies, political instability and

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regional conflicts like the Arab Israeli Wars and the Yong

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Kippur Wars dropped the tourist numbers, and again in the

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early two thousands, tourism faced more setbacks from terrorist attacks,

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especially from the bombing of tourist sites in Luxor and

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Sham Alshaikh. In more recent years, there have been increased

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efforts to once again promote tourism and improve security in Egypt.

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So tourism is slowly growing, and it should because there

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are some amazing things to see and do in Egypt.

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I recently got my diving certificate, and I'd love to

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try the Red Sea blue Hole. I mentioned to the

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blue hole in Belize in an earlier episode. The Red

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Sea also has a blue hole, but much more deadly

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four hundred and sixty two foot deep blue hole known

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as the Divers Cemetery because at least forty divers have

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died there. The White Desert is a weird wonder of nature.

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There's huge, odd shaped chalk boulders that loom over the desert,

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making it look like icebergs have stranded themselves in a

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sand dune. It's something out of a science fiction movie

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and what's in a lifetime experience. A lot of people

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even camp overnight so they can see it during sunset

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and sunrise. Saint Catherine's Monastery, located at the foot of

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Mount Sinai, is one of the oldest in the world

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and where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.

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While you're there, you can hike up Mount Sinai to

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see the sunrise or sunset, either by taking a camel

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for the easy route or climbing the famous Steps of Repentance.

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If you want a better view, a visit to the

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resort town of Hergatta, along the gorgeous beaches of the

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Red Sea, is a great timeout from temple viewing bock

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out the smaller tourist town of marsa Alam, where Magdalena

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stayed on her fateful trip. It's located on the western

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shore of the Red Sea and one of the most

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attractive tourist areas because of its resorts, crystal clear waters

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and white sandy beaches. Also known as the Egyptian Maldives,

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Egypt looks like a magical land with natural beauty, history,

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and mystery around every corner, and I can't wait for

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the opportunity to visit. But although it looks amazing, it

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can be dangerous. Let's get to know Magdalena Zook and

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find out what happened on her Egyptian vacation, because there's

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a lot to unpack in this tragedy. There are a

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lot of rumors and a lot of people involved in

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this tragedy. The media and the internet ran with this

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story and all the theories about what happened. But what

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I noticed was that very few sources talked about who

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Magdalena was or what type of person she was. Magdalena

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Zuk was born September nineteenth, nineteen ninety in Bogatina, Poland,

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to her parents Tadus and elsbta Zuk. She had several sisters,

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but the one we'll mention most in this episode is

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her sister Anna, who searched relentlessly for the truth surrounding

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her death. Magdalena left home when she was just seventeen,

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and several new sources said her father was an alcoholic

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and that she sought out therapy to deal with that

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in her late teens, but that didn't slower down. She

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was full of life, dreams and laughter. She was ambitious

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and smart, pursuing and achieving all the goals she set

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for herself. At the age of twenty two, she opened

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her own beauty salon while also studying for bachelor's degree

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in diocetics. She was a model and an athlete. She

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loved a jog, swim, and hike. She was also into

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fitness training and pole dancing. She didn't like sitting still

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for a minute. She was always working, studying, or trained.

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When she was twenty seven, she moved to a small

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town called Roklaw in Poland and met her boyfriend Marcus

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Wodarski during a concert in a popular nightclub called Gray.

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He was a well known hairdresser in town that often

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worked with models, and the two hit it off right away.

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By the time her trip to Egypt rolled around, they

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had been dating for three to four months, and her

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friends said they planned to get married the next year

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in the United States, with his second wedding in Poland.

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Before her trip, she was happy and talked about her

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upcoming marriage and the wedding, as well as her desire

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to have children. Magdalena's friends and family said she had

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no history of mental illness or depression, never did drugs,

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and was adamantly against them, but she was known to

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be spontaneous. She secretly organized this all inclusive week long

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holiday to a resort in marsa Alam, Egypt, for her

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and Marcus to celebrate Marcus's birthday, but she didn't reveal

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the surprise until around one pm on the afternoon of

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the day of departure. This is when they realized his

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passport was valid for less than the six month cut

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off required, so there's no way he'd be allowed in Egypt.

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Some rumors said she knew or should have known, because

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she'd been in touch with their mutual friend mache Sulchek,

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who would have told her about the passport issue. While

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that can't be confirmed, marche does end up playing a

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crucial character later on in the story, so we'll come

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back to him. The money was already spent and Marcus

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couldn't go. They checked if there could be an exception

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with his passport or if they could change the dates,

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but they couldn't. Four hours before the flight left, Marcus

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tried to sell the trip on Facebook, writing a post

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that said I am selling a holiday to Egypt. Departure

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is today from Kadaviza at eight twenty pm. The Egypt

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hotel has four stars and is all in the value

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of the trip is four thousand PLN, which is a

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little over nine hundred euros. I will sell it for

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half price for two people. A Polish YouTuber named tera

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Caaz claimed that three different people offered to buy the trip,

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but Marcus told them the trip was already sold. He

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even claimed they showed screenshots to the police, although none

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of this is confirmed. This YouTuber theorized that Marcus created

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the entire Facebook post as an attempt to buy himself

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an alibi, and that Magdalena going alone was the plan

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the whole time, but Magdalena also asked her circle of

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friends if anyone wanted to go with her, and unfortunately,

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no one was able to. According to her sister Anna,

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she asked her and their parents and none of them

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had valid passports. But in a later interview with her parents,

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they said they had no knowledge that she had flown

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to Egypt for the trip. Her father even said had

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he known, he would not have let her go to

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that country, not alone and not with someone else either.

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Like I mentioned, there are a lot of conflicting stories

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in this case, lot of unconfirmed statements, making it hard

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to know what or who to believe. Another issue is

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that it's difficult and expensive, if not impossible, to change

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the names on a flight at the last minute. Megdalena

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booked the trip with a travel company called Rainbow Tours,

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so it's possible she spoke with them and they told

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her they could change the names. And they also play

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a big role in this case. We'll get to that soon.

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When I looked up Rainbow Tours, it was hard to

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get much information. What I did learn is that they

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are a Poland based travel company that books travel throughout

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most of the world. They offer all types of travel, accommodations,

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last minute bookings, family vacations, tours, all inclusive. If you

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can dream it up, they can make it happen. What

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I couldn't find were any company reviews. Even searching through

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their Facebook page. There were very few posts around the

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time of Magdalena's death, and the ones I saw didn't

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mention her or allow comments. Either way, Magdalena ended up

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taking the trip by herself, and while a lot of

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women go on solo trips, I'm not sure if this

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is something she'd normally do. The trips she bought included

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a full time guide from Rainbow Tours, so she'd have

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someone to help her out once she got there. That

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spoke Polish, which probably made her feel safer about going alone,

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and that guide was named Mamod Carrie. So to break

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it down, Magdalena took a solo vacation in Egypt and

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never came back. Marcus was her boyfriend back in Poland

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Marche is their mutual friend. Ma Mood is the travel

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company guide and Anna is Magdaliena's sister. Let's get into

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it after these messages from our sponsors, Well, this case

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is full of rumors and gossip. I do have a

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pretty good day by day's schedule of what took place

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from when she landed in Egypt and tell her death.

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On Tuesday, April twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, Magdalena's boyfriend Marcus

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takes her to the Katapiza airport for her eight twenty

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pm flight to Egypt. Witnesses said she was crying and sad,

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but otherwise wasn't acting strangely. She lands in her Gada, Egypt,

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just after midnight on April twenty sixth, and calls Marcus

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when she lands to check in. According to Marcus, she

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doesn't sound nervous or anxious, and no witnesses came forward

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saying they noticed anything unusual about her, but rather that

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she acted completely normal during the flight and landing at

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the airport. After landing, she goes to Marsa Alam, approximately

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two hundred and eighty six kilometers or one hundred and

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seventy eight miles away to the Three Corners Atquinox Resort

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Beach Hotel and checks in. The Three Corners is an

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all inclusive four star resort. They're a family friendly resort

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with a club atmosphere, a full weekly program with various

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sports and entertainment, and a water park. The rooms all

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have a balcony overlooking the sea or garden. There's a buffet,

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restaurant and plenty of entertainment shows. It's facing the open

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sea with a large beach front and located with an

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a leisurely stroll of the Blue Lagoon beach. Sounds like

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paradise for only about eighty two one hundred dollars a night.

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So I looked for the bad reviews like I always do.

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The negative reviews complained about unprofessional staff, no privacy for guests,

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rooms were outdated, and bad food at the buffet. Almost

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every complaint was centered around the entertainment and shows, as

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well as the beach vendors harassing the vacationers, and quite

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a few complained about racism, saying the staff would only

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serve certain nationalities like Italian, French and English. The complaints

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I found interesting were about privacy and unprofessional staff. I'm

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not sure what they meant by no privacy for guests

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because no one elaborated, but it's definitely suspect. On Wednesday,

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April twenty sixth, at three am, just a couple hours

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after checking in, Magdalena calls Marcus again and tells him

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she's frightened. She says she heard voices in her room

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and asks him to talk to the hotel staff to

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find out what's going on. So Marcus talks to the

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staff and they tell him everything is fine, and eventually

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Megdalena agrees everything is fine shortly after that. From there

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on out, Marcus said they were in near constant contact,

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but in a contrasting twist, her friends said they could

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barely reach her on the phone while she was there.

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Over the course of that day, Megdalena pleads with Marcus

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to come and get her as soon as possible and

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take her home. This is when Megdalena starts acting really strange.

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Hotel staff said she was running around accusing gifts of

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things they weren't doing, that, she was acting aggressive and

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wouldn't accept anyone's help. She was also crying that her

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boyfriend needed to be there with her and she wanted

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to go back to Poland. They said she was wearing

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long pants despite the intense heat, and frequently taking off

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her blouse to reveal her bare breasts. Hotel staff and

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guests said she she was acting sullen and withdrawn One

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moment refusing to answer questions, and the next moment she

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was acting lively and extroverted, even trying to set up

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a party in the hotel with other Polish speaking guests.

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One female guest at the hotel who tried to help her,

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claimed she would only say do you believe in life

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after death? And then go back to running through the

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hotel and asking me go back to Poland. At some

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points on Wednesday, hotel staff calls the travel agency, Rainbow Tours,

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and they send Mamood, the guy who speaks Polish, to

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keep an eye on her. Also at this time, Magdalena

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starts reaching out some of her friends, sending them strange texts,

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but she's sending most of the texts from Mahmoud's phone,

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even though her phone works just fine. When her friends

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try to reach her on her own phone, they can't.

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She was sending them texts as if they were on

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vacation with her, asking where they are and demanding they

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come to her room, and that she was waiting in

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her room for them. They set her message were mysterious

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and hard to understand. When she finally calls one of

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her friends, they said she spoke very strangely, she was

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mumbling and told them that someone had probably spiked her drink.

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Her friends all agree she sounds erratic and confused, and

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she tells them she is still hearing voices in her room.

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As this information starts reaching her parents on Wednesday, they

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were understandably worried, and, after speaking with Marcus, thought someone

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should go there and bring her home. The problem was

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that none of them had working passports, so Marcus reaches

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out to his and Magdalena's mutual friend, Marche, who agrees

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to fly there and help. Her parents also speak to

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the travel agency. They ask a Polish woman staying in

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a nearby room to help, and reach out to the

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Polish embassy in Egypt, also asking for help. The embassy

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tells them everything is okay with Magdalena and they aren't

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going to intervene at this point. I'm not sure how

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they made that determination, because she didn't go to the

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embassy and they didn't go to her, so I assumed

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they spoke with the travel agency, who told them she

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was fine. But guys, things only get worse. On Thursday,

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April twenty seventh, she is seen shouting on the phone

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in the lobby and making wild arm movements and again

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running around the hotel showing her breast to other guests.

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Marcus decides she should come home right away and buys

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her a plane ticket. The problem was that there were

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no flights Thursday or Friday, so he isn't able to

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get her a flight until Saturday. But her condition is

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deteriorating fast. Back at the hotel, Mamood is not letting

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Magdalena out of his sight. He tells people he's taking

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care of her and trying to keep her calm. He

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even asks other Polish guests in the hotel for advice

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on what to do for her. He said he offered

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to call a doctor, but that Magdalena adamantly refused and

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said she didn't need any help. But this can't be confirmed.

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Hotel staff says she's crying a lot and seems very

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confused about what's going on. By now, her parents are

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out of their minds with worry because they've never known

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her to be mentally unstable or act like this, and

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there's no history of depression or mental illness. She's always

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been upbeat and positive. Her friends and family have her

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phone location, and that night, as they're watching they see

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that she goes to the beach and is transported to

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what they believe is a ship and spends the entire

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night on that ship. They took screenshots of her location

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in the Red Sea, about twenty kilometers off shore, but

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they can't get any answers to what she was doing

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on this boat, who she was with, or even how

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she got on the boat. In fact, they can't even

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confirm she was on a boat, only that her phone

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location said she was out in the sea. There were

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later rumors that the clothing she was wearing on the

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boat was examined and found to have forensic evidence of

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at least a few unidentified men's DNA. From this, her

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family assumed she was drugged and gang raped on the boat.

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This this isn't confirmed, and any evidence of it was

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omitted from court proceedings. The Egyptian medical examiner said there

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was no indication of rape or even consensual sex before

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her death, but her phone location was definitely out to

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sea according to screenshots, which I'll post on my Patreon.

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Egyptian officials have refused to reveal anything about that night

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and wouldn't confirm whether she was on a ship, saying

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we have not confirmed she was on the ship. Her

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phone was locked into the BTS station that covered the

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range of the hotel she was registered in. Now I

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think it's likely she was in the sea. I've looked

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at the location on my phone before and you can

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see when I moved from one part of my house

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to the next. It's that accurate. She could still be

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on the hotel's WiFi but also be on a ship

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in the sea. On Friday, April twenty eighth, her family

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and friends can't reach her at all. In the morning,

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the hotel staff and Mamood start sending them videos of

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her lying motionless in the doorway to her room, dressed

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just in a bathrobe, saying they found her there unconscious.

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The video shows her curled up and lying on the

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floor in almost a fetal position with her head down.

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They also send another one of her lying on the bed,

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covering her face with her bathrobe. Eventually, her family manages

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to tell her they've arranged a plane ticket for her

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to fly home. The following day. Things continue to go

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downhill for Magdalena, and shortly before three pm, she's taken

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to a local hospital in Port Ghalib by Mahmoud and

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several other men, but it doesn't go well there at all,

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and it's hard to figure out what exactly happened because

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the stories conflict with a footage from the hospital. The

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head of the hospital, doctor Ahmed Shaki, said that Magdalena

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wouldn't get out of the ambulance, but there's video footage

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of Magdalena walking into the hospital willingly, not forced or

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being held up. She looks slightly disoriented in the video,

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but she's walking by herself and not acting out in

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any significant way. Once inside, she isn't examined by a doctor,

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but again there's conflicting stories why that is. One of

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the doctors claimed she refused to be examined, while another

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said doctors refused to examine her because that hospital does

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not deal with mental health patients. Although if she wasn't seen,

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how would they know if it was a mental health issue,

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especially if they told the doctors that earlier in the

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day she was unconscious on the floor, That doesn't sound

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like a mental health issue to meet. Either way. She

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was not seen by a doctor and no tests were done,

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including any kind of toxicology tests, and they wouldn't keep

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her there under surveillance, even though she was obviously suffering

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from some type of crisis, so she returns to the

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hotel without being helped from There is a big unknown

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time gap from when she left the hospital Friday until

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the early morning hours of Saturday. On Saturday, April twenty ninth,

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Magdalena is scheduled on her new flight home to Poland,

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but the day began with a very rocky start. At

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six a m, hotel staff allegedly prevents Megdalena from jumping

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off the roof of the hotel. A report from Mahmoud

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said hotel security observed that Magdalena left her room and

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went to the roof of the building. The accounts of

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the facility's staff told us she was trying to get

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closer to the edge of the roof, and employees brought

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her back to her room. After that, they said she

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stayed in her room alone until two PM, when she

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checked out of the hotel. By this time, Mahmoud had

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been with her for three days, barely leaving her side.

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This seems like suspicious behavior for a travel agent who

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is supposed to be working. Regardless, Mahmoud and his friends

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take her to the airport after checking her out, of

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the hotel. She looks better, her hair is done, and

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she is presentable. This isn't the airport she flew into,

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but rather the smaller airport near the resort. At the airport,

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things go sideways again, more conflicting stories that don't add up.

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Some sources said she was trying to take her clothes

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off at the airport and was in a bad mental

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state and being aggressive. Some reports said an airport doctor

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would not give her permission to travel. The Travel agency

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claimed it was the pilot and aircrew who decided she

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wasn't allowed to board. They claimed the pilot saw her

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behaving strangely and called the airport doctor to assess her

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medical state, and he advised them not to let her on.

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Another witness said the whole situation with the doctor never

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happened because there was no doctor there at all, but

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rather she was led around the building and circles by

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Mahmoud and his friends who kept her from boarding the flight.

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Regardless of the story, the outcome is the same. Magdalena

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does not get on her flight home to safety. Missing

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her flight, Mahmoud and his friends drive her back to

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the Three Corners resort, but they refused to check her

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back in because of her previous behavior, so the group

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goes to a second hotel, but they also won't let

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her check in because she doesn't want to be alone

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and the hotel staff thinks she could bring other guests

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safety into danger. The third hotel they go to lets

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her check in. Around five PM, Magdalena, Mamod, and Mamud's

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male friends are in a parking lot and they use

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Mahmoud's phone to FaceTime Marcus in Poland. Marcus is with

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one of his friends who videotapes the call from Marcus's

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end on another phone. The video eventually gets leaked and

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it only adds more mystery. I'll post the link to

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the video with English subtitles on my Patreon. The video

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less around fourteen minutes, and honestly, it's uncomfortable to watch.

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Magdalena looked terrified. Someone presumably Mamood, is holding the phone

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for her while she's clearly nervous, tearful, and anxious. She's babbling, distressed,

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and incoherent. She seems to be either heavily drugged or

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severely traumatized. She's rocking back and forth and pacing, and

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is mostly unable to talk. She's crying and says very little,

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and what she does say doesn't make sense. The call

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is started by Mamood, and when Megdalena comes on, Marcus

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continuously asks her what's going on and to tell him

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what happened. She says things like they have different tricks here.

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Take me away from here, please, they will do something

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to me. She said, they're holding and then I can't

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tell you. Marcus asks her to speak frankly to him

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and tells her he loves her no matter what, but

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Magdalena is obviously too scared to speak. She finally says,

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I won't come back from here. It's useless. I cannot talk.

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I'm sorry. Marcus asks her if she trusts him, and

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she pauses before telling him yes. Around the thirteen minute

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mark near the end of the video, Marcus asks again

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what happened, and Megdalena only answers, cryptically saying the letter

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M and M could really mean anything. Her name, Mahmud's name,

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Marcus's name, their friend that is flying to Egypt Marche

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all begin with the letter M. After she says this,

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Mamod is heard saying I thought you were only going

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to talk about the hospital, and then Mamod comes back

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on the phone and says in Polish, Marcus, by it

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seems like a waste of time. I will now call

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the embassy here in Egypt to this. Marcus asks him,

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can you ask Megda to turn the phone on? Requesting

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her phone be turned on so he can call her.

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Mamod turns to Megdalena and says, Magda, do you want

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to turn on the phone because Marcus wants to call you.

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Please switch on your telephone now. In the background of

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that conversation between Marcus and Megdalena, the manner speaking in Arabic,

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which also has been translated in the video, and they're

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basically talking about Marcus. They're saying his dick is the

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size of a pinky, fing and calling him a pussy,

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saying he can't do anything for Magdalena. This is an

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extremely strange conversation for the men to be having while

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all this is going on, and while it's hopefully out

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of context. I can't come up with a context that

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would make sense. One strange thing I noticed about the

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call was that Marcus was shielding his side of the

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video with his finger while it was being recorded, and

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I also can't come up with a plausible reason for that.

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After the FaceTime video was leaked, more rumors started. One

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of the main ones was that Marcus and Mahmud actually

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knew each other and were Facebook friends before this trip.

464
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:42.079
But as soon as that rumors started, both men wiped

465
00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:45.559
their social media clean, with ma Mood even deleting his

466
00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:49.680
entire Internet presence. This video also made Marcus the target

467
00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:53.119
for suspicion, with people thinking he made the video as

468
00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:56.759
an alibi because he seemed oncaring as he talked over

469
00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:59.799
her and repeatedly asked her to tell him what happened,

470
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.440
but not really waiting for a response. Something doesn't sit

471
00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.279
right with me regarding the FaceTime and the leaked video,

472
00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:09.720
but I can't exactly put my finger on it. After

473
00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:13.519
this conversation, Mahmood and his friends bring Magdalena back to

474
00:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.200
the hospital in Port ga Lib because he said she

475
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:19.079
passed out in the car, and they admit her as

476
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:22.759
a patient. This time, she's seen on surveillance video arriving

477
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.480
at the hospital in a wheelchair around seven pm, which

478
00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.240
supports Mamod's account that she was passed out. The next time,

479
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.960
she's on surveillance video is shortly before midnight. First she's

480
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.200
stumbling through the corridor, then in a hallway where she's

481
00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:41.039
running from the hospital room, with a group of four

482
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.119
men and one woman chasing her. While some of them

483
00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:48.119
looked like hospital staff, others are dressed in plain clothes

484
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.200
and could have been Mamod and his friends. They chase

485
00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:54.200
her into how she falls and then circle her. She

486
00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:57.519
gets up from the ground, clearly focused on one man

487
00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:00.279
in a checkered shirt, and throws herself at him him,

488
00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.359
but he shields her from the camera as she goes

489
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.480
back down to the ground. From there, the group circles

490
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.680
her again, and still shielded from the camera, it looks

491
00:29:09.759 --> 00:29:12.480
like she's punched in the head. Then they pick her

492
00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:15.039
up as a group, grabbing her arms and legs to

493
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.960
carry her while she's kicking and trying to get away.

494
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.000
The hospital staff reportedly gives her some type of medication

495
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:24.880
to help her calm down and sleep, and her phone

496
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.920
and handbag are taken away from her. She is dragged

497
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:31.200
into a hospital room and tied to the bed with towels.

498
00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:34.720
They said they don't normally deal with psychiatric patients, so

499
00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:37.079
they had nothing else to tie her down with and

500
00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:41.480
towels won't make marks. Hospital staff said she was screaming,

501
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.960
acting violently and aggressive, and they were unable to make

502
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:48.480
normal contact with her. They also said either she or

503
00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:51.160
Mahmood told them she had not eaten in three days,

504
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:54.480
but she was abnormally strong when they were trying to

505
00:29:54.559 --> 00:29:58.480
subdue her. While all this is happening, their friend Marche

506
00:29:58.519 --> 00:30:01.400
is on a plane headed to eat to get Magdalena

507
00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:06.200
and bring her home. On Sunday, April thirtieth, around two am,

508
00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.640
Magdalena asks her nurse to untie her from the bed

509
00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:12.880
so she can use the bathroom. After she was ontied,

510
00:30:13.079 --> 00:30:16.400
she attacked and broke free from the nurse, armed herself

511
00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:19.880
with a drip stand, ran to the window and threw

512
00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.599
herself out. The nurse said, I was in the room

513
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:26.160
with Magdo when she jumped out of the window. I

514
00:30:26.279 --> 00:30:30.119
tried to stop her, but unfortunately I failed. Magda kicked

515
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.799
and hit me. I am very sorry. It's reported that

516
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.640
it was a second floor window in some sources and

517
00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:39.640
a first floor window in others, but that could be

518
00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:43.279
because floors are counted differently in different countries. Some start

519
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:46.160
with the ground floor, then first, then second, while others

520
00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:49.920
start with the first floor. Then second doctor Shocky told

521
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.240
the media he heard a sound at two fifty am

522
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.240
and looked out the window as office to see Magdalena

523
00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.240
lying on the concrete steps, but she didn't die right away.

524
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.079
Hospital staff ran outside and within six minutes of her

525
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.319
fall they had her in intensive care trying to stabilize

526
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.279
her injuries. At five am, she was rushed by ambulance

527
00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:14.359
to the larger red Sea Hospital, about one hundred and

528
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.559
eighty miles north of the city of Hergatta, arriving at

529
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:20.960
eight am. There's video of her arriving with several men.

530
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:24.000
She's on a stretcher, going in and out of consciousness.

531
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:28.039
Mache arrives at the hospital soon after all this happens,

532
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:31.079
and he's initially told that she's in stable condition and

533
00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:34.839
can be transported to Poland very soon, but when he's

534
00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:37.920
able to see her, she's in an induced coma due

535
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:40.759
to her injuries. He later told the media that the

536
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:43.359
doctor said she had a problem with her right lung

537
00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:46.119
which was very dangerous and caused her to lose a

538
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:48.960
lot of blood and she would need an operation within

539
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:51.000
two days, but that he could take her back to

540
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:55.160
Poland for that. The other interesting thing Marche said was

541
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:59.359
that Mahmoud had been badly scratched on his face, although

542
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:02.119
that's never been confirmed or seen on any of the

543
00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:06.759
videos or photos. Magdalena died at the hospital on April

544
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:11.160
thirtieth at five thirty pm, fifteen hours after she fell

545
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:15.279
from the window. Her death was recorded as a suicide,

546
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.799
and while that could be the case, when her injuries

547
00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:22.200
were recorded, they were not consistent with a suicide. The

548
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:26.319
medical report detailed a shattered left leg, a pierced left lung,

549
00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:30.480
and severe left side head damage. She had extensive injuries

550
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:33.880
to her face, head, chest, arms, and legs, but all

551
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:36.559
on the left side of her body. Why is this

552
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:40.000
unusual because when someone jumps to end their lives, they

553
00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:42.400
fall in a frontal way and will usually hit their

554
00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:46.119
legs first as a last resort to save themselves, even

555
00:32:46.160 --> 00:32:48.839
if they want to die. The fact that her whole

556
00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:52.200
left side was shattered indicates she was thrown out of

557
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:56.880
the window, possibly well unconscious. The director of the hospital,

558
00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:01.079
doctor Mohammed Sammy Goma, said, all so tragic, it was

559
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:05.039
just a normal accident, but there were absolutely no tests

560
00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.720
done at the hospital, not a rape kit, not a

561
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:11.400
blood test, not a drug or alcohol test, nothing, and

562
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.039
no one from the hospital asked her if anything was wrong,

563
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:20.559
so how would they know if she was suicidal? Immediately

564
00:33:20.599 --> 00:33:24.720
following Magdalena's death, then news media went crazy. It was

565
00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:28.759
a major story. Rumors and fake news were fast to follow,

566
00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:32.720
hurting the case and hurting the relationship between Poland and Egypt,

567
00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:37.240
causing everyone involved to go on the defense. Mahmood was

568
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.759
interviewed by police, but no charges were filed. He was

569
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:43.960
then ordered by the Egyptian police and the travel agency

570
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:47.000
not to speak to the press or anyone else about

571
00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:50.559
what happened. He then removed all his social media accounts,

572
00:33:50.680 --> 00:33:54.880
quit his job, moved away, and pretty much simply disappeared.

573
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.160
Magdalena's family and friends cried out for answers, but were

574
00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.359
told over and over that she killed herself, even though

575
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:06.599
the evidence doesn't entirely support that. Blame was being thrown

576
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:11.480
in every direction online. Mahmood was often suspect number one,

577
00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:15.440
but rarely did people think he was acting alone. Many

578
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.960
thought he was working with her boyfriend Marcus in a

579
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:21.920
sex trafficking ring. Some even thought her sister had something

580
00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:25.679
to do with it because she supported Marcus's innocence. On

581
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:31.440
May tenth, twenty seventeen, Egyptian authorities performed Magdalena's autopsy. Two

582
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.639
Polish officials were allowed to watch, but not participate in

583
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.760
the autopsy, and they couldn't do their own testing or

584
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:41.719
findings while this was taking place. Egypt concluded her death

585
00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:45.079
was suffocation caused by an embolism in the lungs as

586
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.119
a result of a fall. Her family wanted a second

587
00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:51.920
autopsy to get more clarity and because Egypt wasn't forthright

588
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.199
in handing over their findings, but when they sent the

589
00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:58.800
body back to Poland, it was already cleaned and embalmed,

590
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:01.679
so there was no way to do any testing for

591
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:05.199
drugs or evidence of rape or sexual assault. Their hands

592
00:35:05.199 --> 00:35:09.239
were tied. On Tuesday, May twenty third, Magdalena was laid

593
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:13.920
to rest in Poland. Family, friends, acquaintances, and random people

594
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:17.599
attended to pay their respects. Her boyfriend Marcus did not

595
00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.320
attend the funeral, although it's not clear what that reason was.

596
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:25.480
The family also turned away anyone with cameras and journalists

597
00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:30.679
from attending. As of now, the official investigation is still ongoing.

598
00:35:31.159 --> 00:35:33.320
No one has agreed on a cause of death, and

599
00:35:33.360 --> 00:35:37.320
no one has been arrested. In March of twenty twenty four,

600
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:41.360
trials started in the lawsuit between Magdalena's parents and the

601
00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:46.199
travel agency. They're asking for compensation due to negligence and

602
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:50.320
not providing appropriate conditions during her trip. They're also upset

603
00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:54.159
that the travel agency contributed to the denigration of Magdalena's

604
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:57.039
memory because they told the media she killed herself due

605
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.679
to mental illness, even though that has never been confirmed.

606
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:04.920
While nothing will bring Magdalena back, I hope someone comes

607
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:08.159
forward with more details surrounding her death so her family

608
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:14.239
can get the closure they deserve. There are so many

609
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:17.079
rumors surrounding this case that it's hard to figure out

610
00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:20.159
what the facts are. But a lot of times rumors

611
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:23.519
are grounded in truth. So let's go through the theories

612
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:27.840
that sound the most plausible. The first is suicide. This

613
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:31.280
could easily be a suicide case, even with the evidence

614
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.320
of her landing on her side, which is unusual. She

615
00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.519
could have lost consciousness after she jumped, or she could

616
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:39.679
have just landed on her side in one of those

617
00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:43.440
rare occurrences. I think the real question with this theory

618
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:47.519
is why why would a young successful girl on vacation

619
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:51.800
purposefully jump to her death. Two reasons. She was either

620
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:54.039
in the throes of a mental breakdown that no one

621
00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:58.599
saw coming, or something happened to her drugs trauma and

622
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.519
she thought this was the only way out. Her parents

623
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.440
said she had no history of mental illness or depression

624
00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:07.199
and it didn't run in the family. But mental health

625
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:11.440
issues sometimes don't surface and tell your twenties. Depression has

626
00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:15.920
a typical onset during the mid twenties. Schizophrenia normally surfaces

627
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.920
in the late twenties to early thirties and women, while

628
00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:22.679
bipolar disorder normally begins in the late teens or early twenties.

629
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:29.039
Symptoms of schizophrenia include bizarre behavior, delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and

630
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:33.360
thoughts of persecution. Those are all symptoms that Magdalena was showing,

631
00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:36.800
but guys, those can also be symptoms of drugs or

632
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.320
severe trauma. There were two things that nagged at me

633
00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:43.880
about her mental health before she went to Egypt. First

634
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:47.239
was planning the trip. It was impulsive in last minute.

635
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:50.000
Several sources said she had to borrow the money to

636
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.239
pay for it, and we know she bought the tickets

637
00:37:52.239 --> 00:37:55.000
and only told her boyfriend. They were going within hours

638
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:58.119
of the flight leaving. This could be seen as manic,

639
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:01.519
but on the other hand, I've definitely woken up and

640
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:04.519
decided to buy a same day flight. In fact, most

641
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:07.239
of my travel is decided at the last minute, and

642
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.039
I can be pretty impulsive about it. I think it

643
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.519
depends on if this trip is the type of thing

644
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:15.239
she's done before, or if it was out of character.

645
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.559
The other thing that strikes me was that she started

646
00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:22.400
acting erratically almost immediately when she got to the hotel.

647
00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:26.519
This could be mental illness or drugs, but unlikely to

648
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:28.960
be a sign of severe trauma because she was fine

649
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.679
on the flight. There. Many people online think she had

650
00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:36.239
a mental breakdown brought on from sexual assault, but by

651
00:38:36.280 --> 00:38:39.719
all accounts, she started acting out before that could have happened,

652
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:43.280
which brings us to the second theory that this was

653
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.639
some kind of human trafficking or sex crime that ended

654
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:50.960
in murder, and everything here is just rumors because there

655
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:55.000
was no confirmed sexual assault by authorities. This is when

656
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:59.320
a man named Christoph Rukowski enters the story. He's a

657
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:03.320
Polish reality TV star who was on the show Detective,

658
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:08.079
which follows the exploits of his detective agency Rutowski Patrol.

659
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:12.719
He's a former riot policeman but not a licensed detective,

660
00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.519
and in two thousand and seven he was sentenced to

661
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:19.280
fourteen months in prison for illegally arresting a man in Antwerp.

662
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:23.239
He claimed that Magdalena's parents approached him to launch an

663
00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:27.679
investigation into her death. From his investigation, he told the

664
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.599
media that Magdalena couldn't have died by falling from the

665
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.920
second floor due to her athleticism and marathon training. Instead,

666
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.239
he said she had been drugged by an organized rape gang,

667
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:41.119
which Mahmoud played a key role in, and it was

668
00:39:41.159 --> 00:39:44.199
also Mahmoud who prevented her from boarding the plane back

669
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:48.719
to Poland. But his reputation has come under intense scrutiny,

670
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:51.719
and during one of his discussions about the case, he

671
00:39:51.800 --> 00:39:56.440
even proposed to his then girlfriend on air, which is inappropriate,

672
00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:00.320
to say the least. Later on in his investigation, he

673
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:02.960
did a one eighty and said the Egyptian authorities were

674
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:07.000
right all along and she had mental illness resulting in suicide.

675
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:10.440
Most people think he was paid off to change his tune,

676
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:14.360
and Magdalena's parents have cut all ties with him. Another

677
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.400
theory is that her mental breakdown was brought on after

678
00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:21.159
she was gang raped in a sado masochistic ritual called

679
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:26.599
the taharush game. That phrase literally means group harassment in Arabic,

680
00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:30.239
and according to Wikipedia, it's a form of mass sexual

681
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:33.599
assault that has been documented in Egypt since two thousand

682
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:38.039
and five. The incidents involve groups of men surrounding and

683
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.639
sexually assaulting women by groping, molesting, and sometimes raping them.

684
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:47.159
These assaults typically occur in crowded public spaces where it's

685
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.079
difficult for victims to escape or receive help. They used

686
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:54.039
the chaos of the crowd to carry out their attacks,

687
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:58.360
and it's basically a ritual organized public raping of lone women.

688
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:03.760
It's horrific and would definitely cause severe trauma. Another theory

689
00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:08.159
accuses Marcus of grooming and then selling Megdalena to Mahmoud

690
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.519
to work as a prostitute along the Red Sea. This

691
00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:15.920
she was drugged and repeatedly raped, resulting in severe mental trauma.

692
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:20.960
Mahmood's role in all this definitely looks suspicious, from using

693
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:24.039
his phone to contact her friends and family, to always

694
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:26.639
being right next to her, to the things he said

695
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:30.320
on the taped FaceTime call. It gives reasons to think

696
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:32.960
he was up to no good, and there are several

697
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:36.840
variations to this story, including a criminal network led by

698
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:40.800
a local mob boss named Captain Khalid that this group

699
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:45.440
targets European women traveling alone, drugs them in their hotel rooms,

700
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:48.320
and then charges rich sheikhs to have sex with their

701
00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:52.880
unconscious bodies. Along those lines was another rumor that Marcus

702
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:56.960
was a drug dealer using Megdalena to smuggle narcotics into

703
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:00.440
Egypt and something went wrong with her, either in testing

704
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:03.280
the drugs or being assaulted, leading her to have a

705
00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:07.480
mental breakdown. The Egyptian autopsy official ruled that she had

706
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:11.679
no sexual intercourse and despite having several unknown men's DNA

707
00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:14.599
on her clothing, they said there was no DNA under

708
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:18.519
her fingernails, on or in her body, and although the

709
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:21.599
autopsy report could have been faked. The problem I have

710
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:24.960
with the human trafficking and sexual assault theory is with

711
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:28.119
them taking her to the hospital. Why take her to

712
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.480
get help if you are the cause of her needing

713
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.159
to get help. Several stories say she was thrown out

714
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.039
of the window rather than jumping, but if they plan

715
00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.559
to kill her, then why take her to the hospital

716
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.079
and throw her out of a window. There are much

717
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.920
easier ways that don't involve so many witnesses. They could

718
00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:48.440
have taken her there as an alibi, but there are

719
00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:52.599
easier alibis as well. The third theory is that this

720
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:56.159
was some kind of a drugging gone wrong, either resulting

721
00:42:56.239 --> 00:42:59.920
in her complete mental breakdown and suicide or her murder.

722
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:04.480
According to most reports, her autopsy showed several drugs in

723
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.480
her system, but it's hard to tell if those drugs

724
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:10.320
were there prior to her hospital visit or if it's

725
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:13.840
something they gave her at the hospital. On May second,

726
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:17.559
twenty nineteen, the media reported that traces of a very

727
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:21.480
popular African medication called KOT was found in her body.

728
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:25.159
According to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation, KOT is a

729
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.239
stimulant and the short term effects include increased talkativeness, energy alertness,

730
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:33.719
faster heartbeat and breathing, higher temperature and blood pressure, and

731
00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:38.000
a reduced appetite. They also said that KOT is associated

732
00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:42.400
with mental health conditions such as psychosis, depression, mood swings,

733
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.639
and violent behavior. But it should be noted that chewing

734
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.159
the leaves has traditionally been used for medicinal purposes for

735
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:53.679
stimulant and euphoric effects. Another drug that was reportedly found

736
00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:57.480
in her system was flakka, sometimes called bath salts in

737
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:01.320
the United States, and this one is much more dangerous.

738
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:05.960
According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. The effects

739
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.880
are paranoia and hallucinations that may lead to violent aggression

740
00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:13.079
and self injury, and has been linked to suicides and

741
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:17.519
heart attacks. There were also official reports of unnamed powerful

742
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:21.280
psychiatric drugs found in her body, including a substance used

743
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:26.559
to treat psychosis, schizophrenia, and or depression. The drugging theory

744
00:44:26.599 --> 00:44:29.280
fits her behavior and the fact that she told her

745
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.960
friends and family she thought her drink had been spiked,

746
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:36.679
but the question remains who drugged her and why. Her

747
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.480
sister Anna thinks she was murdered because she was given

748
00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:42.320
drugs by people who wanted to abuse her in hopes

749
00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.039
that she wouldn't be able to remember anything, but that

750
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:48.000
she had a different response than they expected, so in

751
00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:50.280
the end they chose to throw her out the window

752
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.239
to cover their tracks. The argument against her being drugged

753
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:57.599
is that they have very strict drug policies in Egypt.

754
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.840
That's not to say there aren't drugs there, and it

755
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:03.559
could give even more reason for whomever gave her the

756
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:06.960
drugs to murder her in a cover up. Unless someone

757
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:10.280
involved comes forward, we will not get answers in this case.

758
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:13.880
And if Meddelina was having a mental health crisis, there's

759
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:16.800
no way to prove that now, so we're unlikely to

760
00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:19.800
have any answers from that either. But a lot of

761
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:27.480
questions remain. By now you're wondering is Egypt safe to visit?

762
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:31.800
According to the US Travel Advisory website, Egypt has been

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00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:36.679
at Level three reconsider travel since July thirteenth, twenty twenty three.

764
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:41.719
It says, reconsider travel to Egypt due to terrorism. Exercise

765
00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:45.360
increased caution in Egypt due to the embassy limited ability

766
00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.199
to assist dual national US Egyptian citizens who are arrested

767
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.599
or detained, do not travel to the Western desert due

768
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:56.199
to terrorism. Do not travel to Egyptian border areas due

769
00:45:56.239 --> 00:45:59.960
to military zones. They go on to say terrorist groups

770
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:03.960
continue plotting attacks in Egypt. Terrorists may attack with little

771
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:09.719
to no warning and target diplomatic facilities, tourist locations, transportation hubs,

772
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:14.400
markets and shopping malls, Western businesses, restaurants, resorts, and local

773
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:19.360
government facilities. That's a pretty serious warning. That being said,

774
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.559
the main tourist resorts of Egypt, like Cairo and the

775
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:26.400
Nile cruise stops including Luxor and Aswan, and the Red

776
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.280
Sea resorts of Hergatta and sham Al Shic are all

777
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.559
considered safe to travel, but there is always a threat

778
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:36.719
of terrorist attacks, so stay vigilant. I would definitely suggest

779
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:40.079
working with a reputable tour company in Egypt to get

780
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:42.960
the most out of your experience and keep yourself safe.

781
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:45.840
That way, you'll have everything taken care of for you

782
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:48.920
and be able to relax and enjoy your trip. The

783
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:52.559
culture and customs in Egypt are probably a lot different

784
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.440
than what you're used to, and it's always best to

785
00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:59.599
thoroughly research before going. I know, sometimes the best part

786
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:03.239
about exploring a new country is getting really cool photos,

787
00:47:03.719 --> 00:47:06.519
but if you're in Egypt, be careful where you point

788
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:12.039
your camera. It's illegal to photograph government buildings, police officers, airports,

789
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:17.400
railway stations, military installations, children unless given permission from parents,

790
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:21.400
archaeological sites without a permit, and people without their consent.

791
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.760
It's also technically illegal for unmarried couples to share a

792
00:47:25.760 --> 00:47:29.599
hotel room, but this doesn't apply to foreigners. If one

793
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:33.000
or both of you holds an Egyptian passport, though, you'll

794
00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:35.679
need to provide proof of marriage in order to stay

795
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:41.000
in the same room. While homosexuality isn't technically illegal in Egypt,

796
00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:45.159
many in the community have been questioned and arrested under

797
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:49.039
debauchery laws. Most view it as im moral and a crime,

798
00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:51.639
so be careful what you say and how you act.

799
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:56.079
This doesn't mean people from the LGBTQ community shouldn't go

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00:47:56.159 --> 00:47:59.480
to Egypt. It just means that vocally supporting it in

801
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:03.599
a public setting shouldn't be done, and any PDA should

802
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:08.239
be strictly avoided. Don't speak badly about Egypt while you're there,

803
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:12.440
but also don't post anything negative on social media either.

804
00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:17.320
In June twenty eighteen, a Lebanese tourist was sentenced to

805
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.920
eight years in prison because she posted a Facebook video

806
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:23.679
calling Egypt a son of a bitch country, and was

807
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:27.679
arrested in Cairo airport on her flight home. Pack the

808
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:32.000
right kind of clothing. Egypt is a conservative country. Keep

809
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:35.239
your shoulders and knees covered and wear loose fitting clothes

810
00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.760
for a mosque visit. You'll need clothing that covers from

811
00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:41.400
ankle to elbow, and you'll need to cover your hair.

812
00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:45.639
Other than mosque visits, women aren't expected to wear headscarves,

813
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:48.320
although women who are covered more on the streets have

814
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:51.960
less harassment from men. It's always good to carry a

815
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:55.199
shawl or scarf with you in case you need more coverage,

816
00:48:55.679 --> 00:48:59.480
and ladies bring your own tampons in period items because

817
00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:02.199
it could be a expensive and difficult to find any

818
00:49:02.280 --> 00:49:06.679
supplies while you're there. There is public transportation, and if

819
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:10.079
you're taking the Cairo metro system, look for the women's

820
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:14.199
only carriages to stay safe and limit any harassment. Don't

821
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:18.079
get in a taxi without first agreeing on the price. Also,

822
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:20.599
if you're a woman, you must sit in the back

823
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:23.960
seat and limit speaking to the driver. Just agree on

824
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.400
the price and pay when you get out. No small

825
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:29.079
talk because it can be taken the wrong way. They

826
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:31.960
also have uber in Egypt, and most people say it's

827
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.119
safer than a taxi. Don't drink alcohol in public places

828
00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:39.480
or in front of religious buildings. You can only drink

829
00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:44.559
alcohol in licensed restaurants and hotels. Also, illegal drugs are

830
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:48.519
an extremely serious crime, and some medicines that are legal

831
00:49:48.599 --> 00:49:51.960
in your country may not be in Egypt, so check

832
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:56.880
before you pack anything. Don't accept food or drinks, even water,

833
00:49:57.039 --> 00:50:00.760
from strangers. There have been reports of women being drugged

834
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.079
and assaulted. When you're eating, only eat with your right hand.

835
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:09.280
The left hand is reserved for toilet duty, and leave

836
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.519
a small amount of food on your plate when you've

837
00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:15.440
finished eating. This symbolizes abundance and serves as a compliment

838
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.079
to the host for providing so well. Lastly, don't eat, drink,

839
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:23.920
even water, or smoke in public during Ramadan because that

840
00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:29.199
would be considered impolite and probably offensive. Public displays of affection,

841
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:33.320
even hugging and kissing, is not acceptable in Egyptian culture,

842
00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.719
so just don't do it. And ladies do not shake

843
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:40.639
hands when greeting men. Instead, you can show friendliness by

844
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:44.960
nodding or smiling. Also, be careful when making eye contact.

845
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:48.599
While it's okay to make some eye contact, don't stare

846
00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:51.360
because that's a sign you're available and want them to

847
00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:53.840
talk to you. And if you're talking to a man

848
00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:57.360
you don't know, keep your distance even in public places,

849
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.159
because it can give the wrong impression if you speak

850
00:51:00.199 --> 00:51:04.480
too closely. Wearing a wedding rink can help avoid unwanted attention,

851
00:51:04.760 --> 00:51:07.440
and if asked, make up a husband and a couple

852
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:11.079
kids so you don't look available. If you're traveling alone

853
00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:14.480
or even just walking around alone, you can be perceived

854
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:18.400
as available and you might get unwanted attention. If you're

855
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:21.320
being harassed, the best way to deal with it is

856
00:51:21.360 --> 00:51:25.239
to ignore it. Be careful when talking to strangers. Don't

857
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:28.199
tell anyone if you are traveling alone where you're staying

858
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:32.079
the reasons for your visit, and avoid sharing personal information

859
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:35.320
or making a lot of small talk where personal information

860
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:39.280
might slip out. Never walk alone at night. It's another

861
00:51:39.360 --> 00:51:42.760
invitation for harassment that could possibly get out of control.

862
00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.280
A good rule of thumb is that every surface worker

863
00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.400
should get some type of tip. So carry some cashion

864
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.400
coints with you and just tip as you go. And

865
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:55.280
for my shoppers out there, go ahead and haggle for

866
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.400
those bargains. It's important that you learn and respect their laws, cures,

867
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.519
and customs. It's a privilege to visit another country, not

868
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:07.840
a right, so whether you agree with their beliefs and

869
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.760
way of life, you must still show respect for it.

870
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:14.920
Egypt may not be the easiest place to travel, especially

871
00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:18.199
as a woman or solo traveler, but the good far

872
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.800
outweighs the bad. I would definitely go, but I'd be

873
00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.480
sure to hire a reputable guide, and like I always say,

874
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:29.000
no matter where you're traveling, make sure you inform someone

875
00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:33.119
about your plans before going anywhere. Tell someone reliable where

876
00:52:33.119 --> 00:52:35.880
you're going and what you'll be doing and when to

877
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:39.239
expect you back. And my number one tip to staying

878
00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:43.440
alive on vacation is to pay attention to your gut.

879
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:51.039
If something doesn't feel right, it isn't. Magdalena Zuk traveled

880
00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:54.519
from Poland to marsa Alam, Egypt, on April twenty fifth,

881
00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:59.400
twenty seventeen, after booking a last minute trip. By April thirtieth,

882
00:52:59.559 --> 00:53:03.280
she was dead. There were so many witnesses and people

883
00:53:03.400 --> 00:53:06.800
involved in this story. Someone knows more than they've said.

884
00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:10.559
If you have any information that can help, now is

885
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:13.039
the time to speak up so her family can have

886
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:19.480
the closure they deserve. And finally, remember to leave a

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00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:26.519
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00:53:26.559 --> 00:53:29.159
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