7 years after the revolution of January .. Adli from accused to witness!

Abdul Rahman Aboul Gheit

The former Egyptian Foreign Minister Habib al-Adli stood before the judges not as an accused, as was the case in the past few years, but as a witness to the events of the January 25 revolution and in a case in which a number of those who participated in the revolution are tried.

Only seven years had been enough for Habib al-Adli to be tried on charges of killing demonstrators and firing live ammunition at them to witness the revolution and issuing verdicts and charges in the case of storming the prisons that took place during the revolution.

Al-Adli took over the interior ministry for 13 years until he was ousted by former president Mohamed Hosni Mubarak in an attempt to calm the popular uprising against him in 2011. During his reign, the state security apparatus became increasingly involved in perpetuating intense hostility between the police and citizens. the police.

Al-Adly angrily stopped in front of the Department 11 terrorism in Cairo Criminal Court during the re-trial of Mohammed Morsi and others in the case of storming prisons, and declared his refusal to describe what happened on January 25, 2011 as a revolution, stressing that Egypt was exposed to a plot planned by foreign elements led by the United States Hamas and Hezbollah, and that Khaled Meshaal is the architect of the Hamas plan to overthrow Egypt.

Al-Adli went on to tell the story of the revolution: "The Mubarak regime was serious about more democracy, but the foreign plan succeeded in pushing the citizens out under the slogan of peaceful demonstrations, so that these conditions can be used to achieve two goals. And members of Hamas and Hezbollah imprisoned in the Wadi al-Natroun prison.

The fact is absent
Al-Adli's novel, which did not differ much from the prosecution's and the Interior Ministry's account of the case, contradicts a leak by former Egyptian army chief of staff Lieutenant-General Sami Annan that was broadcast by the McMullin satellite channel, denying his knowledge that elements of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Broke into prisons in Egypt during the January 2011 revolution, in testimony before the court.

Anan's account is in line with the April 19, 2011 article of the Al-Ahram Youth magazine entitled "In Detail: Surprises of the Report of the Fact-Finding Committee of the January 25 Revolution", in which she said that the Committee had reached two scenarios in the case of prison break- From the collapse of the performance of police in all sectors and the desire of some to intimidate citizens, while the second scenario went to the fact that prisoners were smuggled after armed attacks on prisons.

He has already accused the so-called Army of Islam in Gaza of being behind the bombing of the Church of the Saints in Alexandria on the eve of New Year's celebrations in 2011. A month later, Egyptian Attorney General Abdul Majeed Mahmoud filed a complaint By the Coptic lawyer Mamdouh Ramzi to the Supreme State Security Prosecution accuses the former interior minister of involvement in the bombing of the church.

The question remains: Does Adli and the judge who summoned him to testify bet on the weakness of the memory of the Egyptians? Does al-Adli really believe that the people who participated in the millions in the January revolution will believe his story of the events of the revolution and describe it as a conspiracy? Does he forget the role of the police he led in the killing of 840 demonstrators by sniper bullets or run over armored cars or arm thugs and throw them at the protesters at the camel?