Saturday, 29th January 2011
After I woke up early in the morning I left the house to inspect Downtown and Garden City to see the traces of the fights. Beside burnt out cars, police vehicles and most prominent the still smoldering NDP headquarter building the weirdest thing was the absence of police. Cairo is normally full with police of all types: traffic police trying to sort out some of Cairo’s mad street chaos, police guarding embassies, banks…. But now there was no police to be seen anywhere, instead civilians took over the role of the traffic police directing the cars and pedestrians. In every quarter people formed popular committees to guard their neighbourhood. Friends from Moqattam told me later that women heated up oil in big pots in order to throw it from their windows onto possible thugs and looters.
This reads “Out ya Mubarak, you traitor”.
25 January Egyptian Revolution 