Detective in Egypt .. Asfour draws you to the cage

Abdel Rahman Mohamed - Cairo

"When you are afraid of a special goat, your eyes are a detective informant .. I want Kam in the month, birds as you serve your country," a sentence in an Egyptian series presented after the military coup days, within the dialogue between a security leader and citizen, later became the most prominent scenes sarcastic expression of The reality of recruiting citizens in favor of the system.

Although the role of "detective" was not present in the series, the scene showed a cynical and painful way to recruit informants (a term used by the eyes of the authorities, whether they are secret police or cooperating citizens), and the included terrorism in negotiating the interview and play tone Patriotism and chanting of loyalty and belonging.

These factors have led to the emergence of the scene independently, making him present permanently in contexts dealing with the recruitment of "birds," a description of some Egyptians also on the informants.

Asfour is one of the dozens of scenes that dealt with the personality of the detective in Egyptian cinema and drama through its long history, which varied between ridicule and criticism in some cases, praise and the claim of idealism in others, and developed with the development of the role of the detective and his presence in the lives of Egyptians.

While the Egyptian citizen Ahmed Saudi does not see a significant impact at this stage of the pattern of the regular informant, who works officially with the security services, he shows his discontent with the work of citizens and civilians in favor of security through the swindling of their neighbors and colleagues at work, hoping for material or moral benefit, They are called "honest citizens", a description that the followers of the Authority earnestly call for, while the opponents are cynical and cynical.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, a Saudi who works as a trader believes that the media discourse of power and the sharp polarization that is taking place at this stage and fueling the conflict between the political parties and the "terrorist acts of sabotage" bear responsibility for what he sees as the increasing number of collaborators with security and the perception that this work is national, Stability.

National client?
On the other hand, another citizen, Hussein Abu Samra, does not believe that cooperation with the state and its apparatuses is a form of passive communication or conspiracy. Rather, it is a duty required by the stage for the benefit of the nation and its future.

But Abu Samra requires that the information provided is accurate and correct, and there are reasons to submit to the security authorities, such as issued by the party complained of what raises suspicion and suspicion in his actions and actions, he said.

The stereotypical image of the Egyptian cinema, with its known components in its old output of a coat, a stick, a plate, and a daily newspaper with a hole in it watching what is happening, is seen by the critic and the scenarist as the Imam of the leithi, linked to the 1940s and the following until the sixties.

But the "Asafir" system, which went through various stages, began, according to the Imam of Al-Jazeera Net after the coup of the Free Officers, which officially carried the name of the July revolution in 1952, through the pioneering organization, which extends its elements within all government bodies under the former President Gamal Abdel Nasser, And then the emergence of other organizations in the rule of Presidents Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak such as "Horus" and "Youth of the future," and the role of the state security apparatus in this context.

He points out that during the January 2011 revolution and after attacking the state security headquarters, the rebels signed lists of names of informants and "asafirs" in various fields, most notably media and art. They had dynamic names known as "Abu Lamuna" and " Shakshikha "and others.

Recently, since the military coup led by current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi when he was defense minister in July 2013, Imam believes that the system of "sparrows" in Egypt is expanding widely in the Internet space, and there is an electronic detective, which has many tasks of attacking opponents And the establishment of pages supporting and opposing the regime, for the purpose of spying on all activists in social networking sites.

Comprehensive spread
While the critic and artistic producer Ayman Abdel Razek believes that the function of "sparrow" has become widespread recently in all sectors of Egyptian society, and attributed - in his opinion - the growing influence of the role of owners, will not be executed models in the labor circles, state institutions, students and university professors and even the army, Residential areas and neighborhoods.

In his speech to Al Jazeera Net, he points out that the process of recruiting birds has been completely confidential as a "disgraceful" mission that would bring shame, but under the existing regime, it is now public, boasting of its choice of performance. Security has become the responsibility of every official.

However, he believes that the attitude of the Egyptian street toward this group has not changed, but has gone even further along with hatred and rejection, even if it does not appear publicly because of the security situation, because they have a major role in leading the regime in confronting the anger of the street towards corruption and corruption.

State within the state
The change in the stereotypical image of the informant is linked, according to the head of the Egyptian Center for Media Studies and Public Opinion Mustafa Khadri, to the inauguration of the institutes of trustees and police representatives, where the pioneers of these institutes have become better and more visible than the old security investigators.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Khadri goes on to say that these aspects had their drawbacks, as with the low entry of official informants they extorted money from citizens. He pointed out that field research conducted by the Egyptian Center concluded that the secretaries and agents of mabahith This blackmail.

According to this research, the Egyptians view this category as a state within the state, the separation ring between the oppressive security system in Egypt and the citizens; After the military coup, this category turned into a sword in the hands of the system, pointing out that the mere rivalry with one of these The class can be supplied by its owner.