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Egypt protests day 5: Your stories

Resident, Arab Island street, Cairo
“I live in the Arab League Place in Arab Island street. We saw young people come to our street using motorcycles and other means of transport. They destroyed the shops in the buildings opposite to ours and robbed its contents of furniture and computers and loaded it on cars. They did the same thing to the shops at our building and the one next to us.

There are no security forces in the street, and I called the fire brigade but no one answered the phone. We spoke to a senior police officer and he told us that they were given strict orders to pull out.

They want the police to pull out so they’ll say that ‘these are the people who are uprising and protesting, and that Egyptians are thieves.’ But the protests in the morning were different and they aren’t the thugs and thieves who were carrying knives and swords whom we saw at night.

My granddaughter had to leave her home because of looting and smashing of shops and setting fire to them, but the fire brigade came and put it out.

We have no protection at all, there are no security forces now, while they were all over the place in the morning. There are also no army troops in the area, I don’t know if the army is conspiring with them or not.

We felt happy when the army tanks passed by our building, but they kept going without doing a thing. I thought of going down to the street to call them back and ask them to help us and protect us.”

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