[Ennahar] Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, that millions of Egyptians call to leave for nearly a week, seems not to be ready to do so and opts instead for an iron fist, in spite of the great number of casualties.The Raïs challenges the will of the people by refusing to listen and even appears on television during a visit he made to the operational center of the armed forces to monitor the safety control.
In Cairo, the police, taken to task by the protesters, have disappeared from the streets of the city, and the army was deployed in strategic locations in the capital, especially around the Place of Liberation, where thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday at mid-day.
What characterized yesterday is the attempt to involve the army for the first time against the demonstrators. Two military planes have flown at low attitude over the Egyptian capital in order to terrorize the demonstrators whose answer was quickly given in chanting even louder the same slogans at the Tahrir Square.
Groups, suspected of being members of the police and security agents, supporters of the regime, engaged in acts of vandalism and theft.
| Because the Egyptian youths who harass women passing on the street would never escalate their activities during a time of chaos. |
Despite its intervention a bit later, the army managed to prevent many attempts to escape from prison, of prisoners aided by elements of the police, as was the case in a prison in Cairo Sunday when a riot had taken place in the night after the police charged with guarding have facilitated their escape.
The Egyptians discovered the next morning dozens of bodies lying on the floor.