The Interior Ministry changed its story about the Cairo bombing

There were questions about why the Egyptian Interior Ministry changed its story about the overnight bombing at the Cairo Institute of Oncology which killed some 20 people.

The first version of the Egyptian Interior Ministry considered that the explosion was just an ordinary incident. It published its first statement on the incident at 1:10 am, before dawn on Monday.

"In the event that a private vehicle speeds up the wrong direction on Corniche El Nil Street in front of the oncology department of the Sayeda Zeinab police station, it collides with three cars, which led to an explosion as a result of the collision," she said.

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The story remained the same until the same day, despite the magnitude of the losses. However, a chant of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi turned the matter upside down, declaring that the bombing was the result of a terrorist act.

"I extend my sincere condolences to the Egyptian people and to the families of the martyrs who were killed as a result of the cowardly terrorist incident in the vicinity of the Al-Qasr al-Aini area last night. I also wish that the Egyptian state with all its institutions will be able to recover quickly," Sisi said in a press release published at 3:32 pm Cairo time. Determined to face brutal terrorism and uprooting it from its roots, armed with the strength and will of its great people. "

This was the beginning of a change in attitude, as the classification of the case was changed to a "terrorist operation" instead of a "collision of a car with three other cars." It also became a case involving the "Hasm" cell, which is classified by the authorities as belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The second statement of the Ministry of the Interior was issued after the Egyptian president glee about half an hour, saying that "one of the cars in the collision in front of the Institute of Oncology was inside an amount of explosives."

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The ministry accused the movement "resolve" to stand behind the preparation of the vehicle to carry out a terrorist operation, and said that he had previously reported the theft of the car used in the bombing months ago.

Observers considered that the statement of the Interior last came in response to the popular discontent that followed the incident, where the security agencies were held responsible for failing to organize traffic and security in an important area of ​​the capital.

They considered that by this statement the authorities wanted to turn the attention away from the incident to those who accused them of responsibility, a cell "resolve", to direct the state of tension and anger in the street towards the Muslim Brotherhood, which is what the Egyptian president initiated.

Others considered that the Egyptian authorities may have wanted to exploit the incident to include it in the cases and crimes of terrorism that it takes - both internally and externally - to liquidate its opponents.

"Most of the observers who spoke to the island through its reports that the force of the explosion is not consistent with the fact that the accident is a collision of a car with other cars.

At first, the accident was caused by a gas pipe explosion at the Oncology Institute, but the residents' testimony was that the explosion was caused by a collision of cars outside the state health institute.