Since the military coup in the summer of 2013, the Egyptian regime and its supporters have not ceased to publicize fears that cause public panic over ongoing threats to the security of the country and its people.
Under the banner "Danger to National Security," children’s toys, dolls, and even migratory birds have become serious threats requiring security alert and imposing exceptional measures, and a justification for repression and violation of citizens' rights, while the trumpets of authority are repeated "If the security of the country is threatened then there is no talk of human rights."
Therefore, it was not new for the Egyptians, who have lived in the developments of recent years, for the security services to launch a campaign to confiscate the kites that children and young people use to recreate themselves, as Representative Fayek Fahim, a member of the House of Representatives, made an urgent statement requesting the government to ban the game of kites due to disasters Accidents for motorists, putting children at risk and sometimes dying, she said.
Fahim explained that these planes endanger the life of their owner, as they cause panic and panic for motorists arriving quickly on the desert road, as well as the death of some children a few days ago due to falling from the roofs of homes, or electrocuted while trying to dismantle the paper plane stuck in the electrical columns .
She pointed out that some of the conservatives issued decisions prohibiting the use of kites, with a fine of offenders ranging from 300 to 1,000 pounds, paid by the offender or his guardian if he was a child (the dollar is equal to about 16 pounds).
National security threat
Banning kites from the angle of their danger to the lives of children is something the Egyptians received in a serious discussion, but the widespread irony was about another justification that a deputy also spoke about in Parliament, where Khaled Abu Talib, a member of the National Security Committee in the parliament, demanded to prevent playing kites with the pretext of "their danger to national security" ".
The member sought to justify his perceptions of the dangers of the kites, saying that they could be equipped with surveillance cameras to photograph important and vital installations, pointing out that the technical development transformed them from a mere game of fun into a tool for "threatening the national security of Egypt" threatened by its four aspects.
Although these planes are handcrafted from wood and plastic and were an outlet for many children and youth during the embargo due to the Corona virus, the deputy had another opinion, to turn children's toys in his opinion into a national threat, which is considered by observers as a new scarecrow that justifies the authority to continue to impose measures High security.
The deputy’s speech reminded of many similar incidents that spread in Egypt after the military coup on July 3, 2013.
Flying Spy
At the end of August 2013, at the end of the arbitrary coup d'état and massacres in Rabia and Al-Nahda, the media went out to tell the Egyptians that a dangerous spy was in the grip of security.
The spy whose media celebrated his arrest was a migratory "worried" bird, carrying an electronic device on his back that raised the suspicions of a citizen in Qena Governorate (southern Egypt), to be driven by the obsession of terrorism and external plans - which the media talk about day and night - to capture the bird and hand it over to the security authorities, fearing it Suicide bomber or spy for the enemies of the country.
The interaction of security with the juvenile, the bird was detained for several days, and the behavior of the citizen received the approval and praise of the authorities, and the director of Qena Security at the time, Major General Mohamed Kamal, was not embarrassed in declaring to local newspapers that the man who had found and arrested the suspected bird showed a high national sense.
It turned out later that the device carried by the bird is just a tracking device that zoologists have installed to track the movement of migratory birds and study their behavior, to prove the bird's innocence from the charge of espionage and be released after the incident turned into a material for ridicule in international newspapers, to be hunted again, but this time in order to slaughter and eat it In a country where the price of meat is so high that it is dear to millions of Egyptians.
Fajita blades
A few months after the bird's incident, a new accusation of espionage and the threat of national security arose, this time in the famous comedy doll "Abla Fajita", after it appeared in a Vodafone telecommunications ad entitled "The Slice of the Late".
The sarcastic phrases that came in the declaration made by the Fahita Abla were considered by those close to the authority to be encrypted messages inciting the execution of sabotage operations, and a controversial young man named Ahmed Spider (later became a presenter in a private channel) submitted a report to the Attorney General accusing the puppet of preparing for a terrorist act targeting a commercial center in Cairo .
The report alerted the security services, the public prosecutor responded to him, and assigned the Supreme State Security Prosecution to investigate it, and company officials were questioned about the announcement and its content.
The case quickly ended in the corridors of the prosecution, but its resonance spread widely inside and outside, and human rights activists considered that the authorities' interest in this comic statement against a global company - without taking into account its negative impact on the image of Egypt externally - aims to stoke the security concern of the Egyptians and convince them of the existence of internal and external conspiracies being hatched against their country.
Pepsi induction
At the beginning of 2014, Pepsi published advertising banners bearing pictures of some of the stars of the Egyptian soccer team, with the phrase "Go back, encourage ... now is our opportunity."
The announcement did not pass, the slogan of the coded conspiracy and the threat of national security rose again, and a lawyer presented a report to the Attorney General accusing the company of including the advertisement codes that incite to demonstrate on January 25, 2014 (the anniversary of the January Revolution) based on the numbers of players who appeared in the announcement It was 25, 1 and 14.
To complete the conspiracy theory, it was considered that the number 4 player in the photo refers to the fourth slogan raised by those who reject the military coup in Egypt.
In turn, the author found great interest in the authorities and their media, despite his ridiculous allegations.
Rams Shark
In the same year 2014, the media circulated a report about thwarting an attempt to smuggle a small spy submarine, so it became clear later that this submarine was used to photograph a satirical Ramadan program for actor Ramez Jalal, who in that year bore the name "Ramez Shark Al-Bahr".
Of course, Ramez's relationship with the submarine did not receive the same amount of publishing as the espionage allegations.
The wounded eagle
In April 2017, another bird was on a date with accusations of espionage, as an unidentified eagle fell injured inside the General Court of Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, for officials to discover a leather wallet in his foot, which was described by the media as a "correspondence wallet".
The regime's media continued to file espionage charges against the bird, and allegations were raised that this eagle was trained to move between specific places, and might lead the security forces to hunt a terrorist cell that used birds of prey to convey its messages.
It turned out later that the fleeing eagle belonged to a hobby of breeding birds of prey, and that the leather wallet was a means of controlling and training it, and instead of the regime's media providing an apology for its lies, it called on citizens to be careful in dealing with this type of bird. Be like that.
Prohibited games
Children's games, especially wireless aircraft, have not been happier than birds and toys. The authorities in Egypt see them as a serious threat to the country's national security.
Since the military coup in 2013 and until today, the news of the arrest of many arrivals from abroad is not interrupted due to taking their children's toys from small planes that are operated with remote control devices, or those that carry a camera and used by tourists to document their trips and photograph tourist attractions, especially places that are difficult to photograph With regular cameras.
The arrest of the game carrier is often related to the phrase spy plane tuning, just because it has a camera.
At the end of 2017, the Egyptian parliament passed a law prohibiting the import, manufacture or use of aircraft that are automated or wireless in all their forms and sizes except with a special permit from the Ministry of Defense, describing them as potentially a threat to the country's national security, and setting penalties that amount to life imprisonment and death if used in " Terrorist purpose. "