From "Il Corriere della Sera of Saturday, January 29, 2011
Egypt, to challenge the Saddam regime
: rest in power
Thousands of 5 dead people in the streets in Cairo, 13 to Suez
Mubarak "resigned" the government
SENT FROM OUR CAIRO - News 14 hours, the radio system: Ahmed Abu Al Gheit, Foreign Minister, is visiting Addis Ababa, Lebanon has a new government, the protests continue in Tunisia. In the first charge hits the road with a rebound shot at the seventh hour, at the end of prayers. The dice splashing against the ceiling of the bridge and roll in the crowd. The acrid smoke mixes with the smell of onions all held under her nose, stop her tears with tears are less bitter and even the national plan, were designed on the graves at the time of the pharaohs. The parade square to press
Giza. It is there in the great mosque of the district, which asked Mohammed El Baradei. And that's where the Nobel Peace flees when police try to arrest him. You back to "stand alongside the people" - he says - and as the people remain soaked by a jet fired from the turret of an armored car. Protesters trying to protect it, do not give up, jerking is brought inside the temple.
agents are preparing for the siege, this time the tear gas used to block, a barrier of mist and asphyxiation. `The former director of the UN atomic agency is the man who would make the transition, called for the fall of Hosni Mubarak, to be stopped immediately. Or at least restrained. They leave to go home and inform the police: he can not walk around free. Arrest.
The bridges are locked in Cairo. The anti-riot squads are among the rioters and the heart of the city, the goal is Tahrir Square, Liberation, and the symbol of the state buildings. Cola in the middle of the Nile, a few boats for tourists to resist wind carries the smell of the clashes. From Giza to the center, from the western to the eastern one, you have to walk under the viaduct emptied from the chaotic traffic, tunnel where are the stones of the first battles. From the balconies
women screaming "Stop, stop," when the police charge, lowering the shields and raising their sticks. On the street, people yelling "Go away," the president and his son Gamal united in aversion from that plural. The attendant washes away the fuel, implore you not to smoke there vicino.Un hooded guy steals the fire extinguisher, garbage in fiamme sta soffocando l'avanguardia della manifestazione.
Al mattino la città era deserta, silenziosa come i cellulari zittiti dal governo. Niente telefonate, sms o Internet, la censura serve a fermare le comunicazioni tra i rivoltosi.Che hanno usato il microblog Twitter per coordinare la protesta. Uno degli ultimi messaggi rivendica la rivolta: «Non lasciate che venga attribuita agli islamici» . Al governo non basta: all'alba una retata porta via attivisti dei Fratelli Musulmani, anche se il movimento è rimasto ai margini delle manifestazioni.
Il black out era previsto nelle 26 pagine di un manuale per la guerriglia urbana circolato al Cairo. Foto aeree con gli obiettivi da conquistare cerchiati di rosso (primo fra Mubarak's palace and all his thirty years of power), tips on how to deal with the security forces: best to avoid direct confrontation because agents are persuaded to switch sides . "The people and the police together against injustice . `Long live Egypt," is one of the slogans suggested. The streets of Old Cairo
allow to bypass the checkpoints. Plainclothes agents wielding sticks uprooted from flowerbeds, the old men play dominoes, young people gather and prepare the moves of their game with the police. The major boulevards, echoing blasts of grenades, is on those streets that the crowd trying to break through to the center.
Day anger rises in the rest of the country. In Alexandria, the faithful leave the mosques shouting "wake up the nation's children." Sons and brothers: a battle in the streets of the city runs out with the demonstrators who embrace the police, solidarity and exchange bottles of water. At Suez, the event becomes a funeral, the crowd raised a corpse, and a man yelling "they killed my brother '(the fallen in the port city would be 13). Another victim is among the Bedouins of the Sinai. In the capital, five people have died, 870 injured, 400 arrested.
The two stone lions guarding the access to the Qasr el-Nil bridge since 1872. The row of blue uniforms behind an armored vehicle, the turret spit fire hydrants. Have faced for hours on the island of Gezira: past, this cord, the way is clear to Tahrir Square. At sunset, the tower of Cairo glows blue like a normal day, officials began backing away, the truck swerves, the boys in uniform are at a retreat to the other side, the protesters are white metal rolled a booth, is a steamroller in front of them. Al Jazeera showing the images (another bridge) of a police car overturned in flames in the Nile. Thousands of protesters by early afternoon to reach those who besiege the center and government buildings. Attack and set fire to the headquarters of the National Democratic party of Mubarak, pointing to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs e la televisione di Stato . Che annuncia un discorso del presidente al Paese , l'apparizione (la prima dall'inizio dei disordini) arriva solo dopo la mezzanotte. Mubarak difende le azioni delle forze di sicurezza (« C'è un complotto per destabilizzare l'Egitto»), ma non il suo governo: «Ho chiesto ai ministri di dimettersi, da domani (oggi, ndr) insedierò un nuovo esecutivo». Lui invece resta. Promette di «continuare con le riforme economiche, politiche e sociali», avverte i manifestanti: «Fermate la violenza e gli atti di sabotaggio».
Poche ore prima del proclama, le colonne della polizia lasciano la città e incrociano i mezzi corazzati dell`esercito che hanno ricevuto l`ordine di prendere il comando. I militari erano rimasti per ora lontani dagli scontri. Il regime proclama il coprifuoco dalle 18 alle 7 del mattino, in vigore anche ad Alessandria e Suez - nessuno lo rispetta. Gli elicotteri volano tra i palazzi, coordinano i movimenti delle truppe. A terra restano i voli della EgyptAir, la compagnia di bandiera, sospesi per almeno dodici ore.
La gente aspettava i soldati per capire da che parte stanno i generali, l'esercito è riverito dal 1973, da quando sorprese Israele con un attacco lampo. La risposta arriva sulla Comiche, lungo il fiume, dove si riversano i blindati color sabbia del deserto: sul tetto i manifestanti in festa sventolano la bandiera egiziana. I soldati vengono dispiegati anche in altre areas of the country. In El Arish in Sinai, the General Staff had to request authorization to Israel after a peace agreement is the demilitarized zone.
We hear gunshots, an explosion sounds of heavy weapons, such as a tank cannon. A group of demonstrators attempting to plunder the Egyptian Museum, others protect it with a human chain. The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen, covered with the golden, is stored in these rooms.
"Remembering the past is important," . Prior to kneel in prayer, in the dark, Medhat explains why an Egyptian said to have fallen in the street: "Once they asked the Pharaoh: How did you become so powerful? He said no one stopped me " .
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