Indeed, large-scale support rallies of the Brotherhood do emerge, mobilizing them from the provinces. These supportive demonstrations have the opposite effect, as they indirectly charge the opposition and Tamarod groups to also take to the streets.
During President Morsi's speech on Wednesday, June 27, and his lack of crisis resolution, crowds emerge to pre-emptively reject him in Tahrir Square. In the following days, Thursday and Friday, crowds begin to pour into the streets, both supporters and opponents. As it is said, if the opposition goes to the streets to express their demands, why should supporters also hit the streets? On Thursday, events begin in Mansoura and Mahalla.
Al-Faraeen channel is shut down, and an order is issued to arrest Tawfiq Okasha, who called for demonstrations against the Muslim Brotherhood. It's worth mentioning that Tawfiq Okasha constantly attracts ordinary people with his simple style. He is the proponent of the theory of "media from the bench", if we want to be accurate, and over time it has proven its convincing power and ability to mobilize crowds. Now the authorities shut down Al-Faraeen channel, and Tawfiq Okasha appears beaten on Al-Faraeen October channel. The authorities order this channel to be shut down as well, which happens the next day. Tawfiq Okasha then disappears, with no news about him. On Friday, June 28, after Friday prayers, supportive crowds appear in front of the Rabaa al-Adawiya Mosque.
Following this crowd, the opposition gets enraged and hits the streets with larger crowds. In Alexandria, the opposition crowd emerges, and suddenly the sound of gunfire and birdshot can be heard. Events accelerate and the result is more than ninety injured and two dead, one of them an American who dies from stabbings, and among the injured by birdshot is a police major general.
The police in these events adopt a neutral stance, and internally, through personal contact, they have no intention at all of standing by the Muslim Brotherhood. They have clearly announced that they will not protect the Brotherhood's headquarters but will protect public places. On this day, a headquarters of the Freedom and Justice Party is burned in Sidi Gaber in Alexandria, in Aga city in Dakahlia, and other headquarters, five across the Republic. The public announces the arrest of a car in Kafr Shukr loaded with bricks, sticks, and melee weapons heading to Cairo.
Some locals appear on the highways leading to Cairo and arrest anyone they suspect to be a Brotherhood member and attack him. Demonstrations against the Brotherhood's rule emerge in the villages, which is a new phenomenon in the village life. What's new in these demonstrations is that many of their participants are workers suffering from unemployment, whom we previously discussed.
An American victim falls...
After two days, it appears he is an American Jew, and Jewish groups have announced their anger because of his death. His presence among the demonstrators confirms the infiltration of foreign elements to fuel the crisis. News of a gas cylinder explosion in Port Said, which kills a citizen and injures others, but the truth becomes clear the next morning (Saturday, June 29) that the explosion was not due to a gas cylinder but was a real bomb.
Five American families leave Cairo on the morning of Saturday, June 29. Their total number reaches 45 individuals.
News arrives about American statements that they will send Marine forces to protect the American embassy in Cairo.
US President Obama asks the Egyptian presidency and opposition to arrive at peaceful middle ground solutions through dialogue. Several members of the Shura Council resign in protest against the cases of violence that are witnessed...
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