Croatian beheaded by ISIS in Egypt


A Croatian surveyor who came to Egypt seeking work to support his family was beheaded by ISIS terrorists three weeks after he was taken hostage outside Cairo.

A stomach-turning photo of Tomislav Salopek, 30, was circulated Wednesday via social media, showing the gruesome aftermath of the execution.

The killing marked the first ISIS execution of a foreign captive in Egypt since the terrorist group arrived in the nation last year.

Though not officially confirmed, the picture showed a man dressed in the same beige jumpsuit that Salopek wore in a prior video released by his cruel captives. Salopek was married with two children.

The body of the hostage in the photo was flanked by an Islamic State flag and a knife stuck alongside him in the sand.

And the shot included a pair of Egyptian newspaper reports about Croatia's support of Egypt in its war against terror and the Kurds in their fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Croatian troops also serve in the NATO force currently in Afghanistan, and fought as part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

Salopek was a gas and oil surveyor working for French company CGG Ardiseis when he was abducted on a highway west of Cairo on July 22.


Kidnappers reportedly yanked Salopek's driver out of the Croatian's vehicle, then took off with him in a carjacking. The car — with Salopek's belongings inside — was found nearby.

The hostage was not seen again until the release of a video last week, when ISIS set an Aug. 7 deadline for the release of female Islamic prisoners jailed after the 2013 coup that ousted the government of President Mohamed Morsi.

Last week, the slain man's father begged the terrorists to spare his son's life.

"I am asking the people who hold my son to let him return to his family, because his motive to go to your homeland was exclusively to earn bread for his children," distraught dad Zlatko Salopek told the AFP news agency. "Nothing else."

But his pleas, like those of the families of other ISIS hostages, fell on deaf ears. ISIS has released a series of grisly videos documenting the beheadings of other abductees, along with the mass execution of 25 Syrian soldiers.

With News Wire Services




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