Picture No | 10416226 |
Date | 1910 |
Description | Assassin of Boutros Ghali |
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Ibrahim Nassif al-Wardani (or Wardany), arrested for the assassination of Egyptian prime minister Boutros Pasha Ghali on 20th February 1910. Wardani was a pharmacology student who had just returned from Britain, and a nationalist who declared that the motive of his crime was a desire to avenge various government acts which had been attributed to Boutros Ghali personally by nationalists.
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Source | Photograph in the Illustrated London News, 12th March 1910 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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