After 9 years of trial ... the innocence of Mubarak's sons is a merit or collusion?

Abdullah Hamed - Cairo

With the acquittal of Alaa and Gamal, the sons of former President Hosni Mubarak, yesterday, Saturday, in the media-known case of "stock exchange manipulation", all his sons become innocent according to the law, but they remain condemned in the eyes of the sons of the January 25, 2011 revolution that removed Mubarak and his regime from the rule of Egypt.

Mubarak's supporters welcomed the acquittal, considering that it was expected and that the case was an attempt by the military council - which took power under Mubarak's mandate after the January 2011 revolution - to obtain the satisfaction of the January revolutionaries in a false case.

While supporters of the revolution considered that the ruling military junta at that time deliberately dwarfed the crimes of Mubarak and elements of his regime in small cases, as "the former regime spoiled a homeland but was only tried for corruption in a villa, company and bank."

Alaa Mubarak appeared in his tweets on Twitter a night before pronouncing the ruling, confirming the innocence, revealing in a series of consecutive blogs about "forgery in the case papers, and stacking papers on them for the purpose of tracing him and his brother."

Alaa Mubarak called - after the stock market issue ended - that an investigation be conducted to uncover "the unprecedented forgery that took place in this case, and serious investigation of both fabricated, false and tampering with the papers to bury the truth so that this tragedy does not recur with others in the future."

Political interest
Farid al-Deeb, a lawyer for the Mubarak family, said that the case of tampering with the stock exchange in which Alaa and Gamal Mubarak were accused was on May 30, 2011, four days before the date of the speech session for the trial of Mubarak and the symbols of his regime known as the Qarn al-Qarn issue.

He explained that the first target of the case is Gamal and Alaa only, noting that the investigation began in it on February 12, 2011, which is the day following the departure of former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak from his post.

He pointed out that the case had brought nine accused, and only Gamal and Alaa Mubarak were imprisoned, as he was held in custody pending the case for two and a half years until things became clear.

He added, in a telephone call to a satellite channel on Saturday evening, that there were those who had an interest in prolonging the case until it was said that there was an issue.

He continued, "Investigations began in early 2011 in a comic manner such as the play Adel Imam, a witness who has no need, and Alaa and Gamal Mubarak were imprisoned alone without the other nine defendants."

Jamal and Alaa Mubarak were remanded in September 2018 pending the issue, after they appeared intensively on public and private occasions, and the crowd flew around to take pictures with them, prompting observers to link the two events as imprisonment as a punishment for them to dare try to appear as an alternative to the current regime of President Abd Fattah al-Sisi.

Innocence Festival for all
Before, their father, Hosni Mubarak, obtained innocence in all the cases that were tried on him, foremost of which was the killing of demonstrators in the January revolution, and he even became a witness in a number of cases in which a number of the symbols of the revolution are being tried.

Among the communications that were not investigated, Ambassador Ibrahim Yousry was accused of accusing Mubarak of achieving tremendous wealth from the arms purchase commissions, as Attorney General Abdel Majeed Mahmoud, the director of Military Intelligence at the time, Major General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi - the President later - to clarify the matter, so the latter informed him that There are no violations in this matter, according to statements by Mubarak’s lawyer, Farid al-Deeb.

Ahmed Nazif, Prime Minister of the Mubarak regime, was acquitted in the case of accusing him of exploiting influence and his previous position and committing crimes of graft, and the court decided that the criminal lawsuit against him and that it was not allowed to be examined again, despite his sentencing at the end of 2012 to three years imprisonment and a fine of about four million 4.5 million (dollars) Equals about 16 pounds) and obligated him to refund such an amount.

The Giza Criminal Court acquitted Habib Al-Adli, the last interior minister in Mubarak’s regime, and 8 other accounting leaders at the Ministry of Interior, and a fine of 500 pounds ($ 30) for each accused, accusing them of seizing public money in the ministry and intentionally damaging it by more than two billion pounds during the period of 2000 Until 2011.

The judiciary exonerated former Speaker of the People’s Council, Fathi Sorour, and former Speaker of the Shura Council Safwat al-Sharif, in addition to the Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hadi, the lawyer Mortada Mansour, the businessman Mohamed Abu Al-Enein, currently Vice President of the Future National Party, and about 20 other accused of killing protesters in a signed case Camel "after the Public Prosecution accused them of assaulting peaceful demonstrators in Tahrir Square during the January revolution.

Expected path
The prominent politician Ayman Nour considered that the innocence of Jamal and Alaa is not a shocking matter in light of the “Innocence Festival for All” that hit the course of accountability after the January revolution and led to “great disappointments”, as the path of the January revolution’s gains turned into a “comic” path that ultimately ends in honoring those who presented Accounting.

He continued in his interview with Al-Jazeera Net that "this innocence is consistent with many previous patents of members of the regime. It came as a result of submitting cases in a timely manner or accusations issued without adequate documentation and study and providing conclusive evidence." He considered that such cases that Jamal and Alaa were held accountable for are The least crimes to be held accountable.

Nour - who is also a journalist and a lawyer - emphasized that even in this context, the evidence presented and legal treatment were "very weak", and there was a clear desire to "intervene" in the course of some cases, including this issue, which issued "special leaks" at an earlier stage with votes Military Council officials, it was clear from them that there was "sympathy and collusion" with the defendants to the extent that one of the defendants was allowed to enter and leave Egypt without arresting him.

For his part, the journalist writer, Salim Azouz, considered that innocence is a "obtainable achievement", and in fact it is a "late" patent, as the patent season for the regime's members began early because the cases that were filed in the basis were not based on a "legal basis."

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Azouz indicated that the one who presented most of these issues "was not loyal to the revolution" and was not one of her sons, but rather closer to Mubarak, his regime and his apparatus.

It is arbitrary to accuse the judiciary of being complicit, in the opinion of Salim Azouz, "The judiciary itself, which examines these cases, is not biased towards the revolution, nor is it supportive of the idea of ​​trying the defunct regime and its symbols. Therefore, patents were even against those against whom crimes were proven against them like Minister Habib Al-Adly."

Regarding the current regime’s position on these trials, Azouz asserts that his goal is to stop the political growth only of the elements of the previous regime, and this is what the current regime wants, but he did not want to stigmatize the era of corruption as the revolution sought, because the leader of the military coup - the current president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi - is not It is also biased towards the revolution that brought the pre-trial system, and it is not in its interest and stigmatization of corruption.

He pointed out that it had not happened in the history of Egypt since the first military coup in 1952 that a regime was convicted of financial corruption. Sadat closed the file of Nasser and corrupted the hand of the Socialist Prosecutor from investigating it, as mentioned by Jalal Al Hamamsi in his book, "Dialogue Behind the Walls" and "Aswar About the dialogue. "