The Egyptians barely finished recalling the positive aspects of the era of former President Hosni Mubarak on the anniversary of his first death and enumerating the advantages of this era compared to the difficulties during the era of the current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and then mercy on the era of Mubarak until the pictures and videos of the Mubarak family's visit to his grave on the anniversary of his death came to confuse the state of sympathy and remind again Egyptians suffer their hardships in return for the luxury of the palaces and graves of their rulers.
Alaa and Gamal - the sons of the late former President Mubarak - accompanied by their mother Suzan Mubarak visited the family cemeteries in the Old Cairo area of Cairo a few days ago on the first anniversary of the death of the president who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years, before he was forced to relinquish power under the weight of the January 2011 revolution. .
However, in the following days, many Egyptians focused on social media on circulating images of the visit that showed a kind of luxury and extravagance, whether in the area of the cemetery or its equipment, starting from a façade topped by a huge image of the late president, passing through a spacious and luxurious reception hall, and a state of mixed controversy erupted with sarcasm. Bitter from the difficult reality experienced by the Egyptians compared to the luxury of the cemetery in which the former president was buried
A cemetery or a hotel?
Tweeters said that Mubarak seems to have wanted for himself a "cemetery that restores the soul," which is a common Egyptian expression to describe beautiful places of residence, where it is described as "its air repelling the soul."
Others described Mubarak's cemetery as closer to a 5-star hotel, with an area of about a thousand square meters, and a large reception hall equipped with insect repellent marble and covered with luxurious red carpets, as well as French furniture and an antique gilded salon dating back to the era of the Muhammad Ali Pasha family, at a cost. Tweeters estimated at millions of pounds.
This is Hosni Mubarak's cemetery ... whose entire job is that he was a government employee, not a businessman, the work of a country is its young regime. He needs to migrate and leave his country for all his youth and most of his life in order to be able to buy an apartment and get married.
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- 🇪🇬🇹🇳 Beginning (@AnotherMercy) March 1, 2021
He has nothing
and what he deserves for what has corrupted and injustice
# Mubarak spoiled # Egypt 30 years in
which the economy was destroyed
and the poorest and injustice in it tens of millions # A cemetery and no # 5-star resort? Https: //t.co/xcGZqrrPkR
- Ahmed M. Aamer (@ AhmedMAamer1) February 26, 2021
The pictures of the cemetery were a shock to the tweeters, who considered that the cemetery is an extension to the consolidation of the idea that the late ruler of Egypt wanted to die as Pharaoh lived, as the tombs of the Pharaohs were famous for their luxury and containing huge wealth of gold.
A cemetery with a thousand homes
Other tweeters recalled one of Mubarak's famous statements in which he said at the beginning of his reign in the eighties of the last century that he would not stay in power more than two terms, pointing to his middle and index fingers, adding that the shroud was without pockets, which was mocked by tweeters when seeing the opulence of his tomb that his shroud had no pockets. But his tomb is full of gold.
Tweeters are scarce about their conditions because of the difficulty in obtaining housing, while their former president - who was "part of their living crisis" - is buried in a cemetery that could solve the problem of thousands of young people by housing them in apartments suitable for living at the same costs as his cemetery.
Some went to comparison with the simplicity of the tomb of the late Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, although he is one of the richest countries in the world, while others compared it to the simple cemetery in which the late Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was buried.
Hosni Mubarak
is buried in a cemetery
or in a palace for conferences
Why is this luxury
for the cemetery of a dead man, and
if this
is
his grave and
he does not feel it,
then what about his palace during his life
these are the soldiers who
suck your blood
and then they ask you for austerity by
begging four sons
and
appointing them
in state institutions
like Sisi,
then they ask you to suffice Bolden
- Mostafa Ghaly (@ 235223522352m) February 27, 2021
While thousands of Egyptian families live in cemeteries,
while young people do not find an apartment to marry, and
while the disgraced Sisi demolishes the homes of Egyptians under the pretext of reconciliation, and
while they sell people their homes under the pretext of registering in the real estate month,
this is the cemetery of the Hulk Mubarak more luxurious than a 5-star hotel!
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- Dr. Yahya Ghoniem (@YahyaGhoniem) February 26, 2021
This is Mubarak’s cemetery and the martyr’s cemetery, God willing, the
professor, engineer Mohamed Morsi,… on the back of the earth… But underground there is something else that the Lord of the Worlds teaches.
# We'll not record, oh_cissy.
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- Asim Bin Thabet (@ STZMYMp4146x9af) February 26, 2021
On the other hand, Mubarak's supporters justified the level of the dignity of his cemetery that this is normal for a president who has ruled Egypt for 30 years and had money of his own that resulted from his great salary as president of the republic, and some also pointed out what they considered favors on Mubarak's part, who did not make the Egyptians suffer such current suffering. .
Others indicated that luxury is not limited to Mubarak's cemetery, stressing that the same situation is the same in the tomb of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Disgusting with President Mubarak building a ZD cemetery
I do not see that you are more?
And according to Mubarak's idea, who has been out of power for 12 years, what news ?!
- Ramy (@ RamyKaram8) February 26, 2021
And former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak died on February 25, 2020, at the age of 92, after a long struggle with illness.
President Mubarak was tried in several cases, including corruption and the killing of demonstrators, but he was only convicted in the presidential palaces case with a final sentence of imprisonment and a fine.
The presidential palaces case ended in January 2016 with the refusal of the appeal submitted by Mubarak and his two sons, Gamal and Alaa, against their convictions, a ruling whereby the three are deprived of exercising their political rights, because the case represents a felony of financial corruption related to public money.