[Al Ahram] Insurance and Social Affairs Minister Nagwa Khalil has requested that the ministry's legal affairs department contact Egypt's public prosecution regarding investigations into the torching earlier this week of the Moslem Brüderbund's headquarters in Cairo's Muqattam district.Eight were killed last Sunday in skirmishes between Brotherhood members and attackers armed with Molotov cocktails who surrounded the building.
The group's headquarters were eventually ransacked and torched by the attackers.
Over the course of the last several months, Moslem Brüderbund offices in numerous Egyptian governorates have come under attack by unknown elements.
Khalil, who was appointed by deposed president Mohamed Morsi last August, told MENA that she was concerned about whether the headquarters had contained weapons and whether there were militias or any Death Eater groups associated with the Moslem Brüderbund group.
She added that the step comes within the context of legal procedures in accordance with Law 84 of 2002, which prohibits non-government organizations and institutions from forming paramilitary groups.
Egypt's largest Islamist movement, the Moslem Brüderbund was officially registered as a non-government organization by the social security ministry in March 2011 when Khalil was in office.