Mubarak is absent from the testimony against Morsi and the confrontation moves to Twitter

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has failed to meet a court summons to hear his testimony against deposed President Mohamed Morsi and 26 other Muslim Brotherhood leaders in the so-called "prison break-in" case. The hearing was postponed until December 26.

For the second time, the Cairo Criminal Court summoned Mubarak, who was absent on the pretext of "legal error." His lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, said that the announcement sent to him at his residence "is invalid and has no effect on the law.

In this case, Mursi and 26 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood are accused and are retried after the Court of Cassation in November 2016 overturned the first sentences against them ranging from death to aggravated imprisonment.

The representative of the prosecution said at the beginning of the hearing that she received a formal notification from the National Security Sector of the Ministry of Interior stating that "Mubarak is civilian and does not have any military status," but Deeb told the court that he did not know where the information was obtained, adding that " He is a pilot and remains in the military service for life according to law and does not need to provide evidence that he is a military. When he left the civil office on February 11, 2011, he returned to service as a military man. "

Al-Deeb asked the court to correct the declaration of his client and to instruct him to attend by means of a declaration from the military judiciary after returning to the General Command of the Armed Forces.

However, the court issued its decision to summon Mubarak to a civilian, after hearing about the case known as the "seizure of funds of presidential palaces" in which Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to a final verdict. This means that he is deprived of rights and benefits, including military ones.

The session witnessed an intensive presence of local and foreign media, while the court allowed access to the families of the accused amid security threats.

Morsi and other defendants face murder, attempted murder and help up to 20,000 people flee prison, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian Hamas movement and Lebanese Hezbollah.

Mohamed Morsi during a session of the trial in the case of "break into prisons" (Anatolia)

The confrontation on Twitter
Despite the postponement of the standoff between the two former presidents, their followers were caught up in Twitter, where the two parties called the "Mubarak" and "Morsi", who competed for first place throughout the day.

Taha said that Mubarak had not only obtained an upgrade but had been summoned to testify about an incident that occurred during the people's protest against him.

The activist Zeinab Saad said that Mubarak failed to attend the testimony because he would laugh, wondering why the testimony in a case known to the people everything.

On the other hand, praised the activist Nasser Abdel Nabi Mubarak, criticizing President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, "Mubarak lived leader and leader and his heart on his homeland Egypt, which fought for it and the fever of his people, and will not betray such a traitor who works for the Mossad."

Far from the argument between Morsi and Mubarak, an account called "Jihad" shared a picture of one of the detainees' wives. "Because the tears are the heat of the great sadness, her eyes have summed up all the pain."