a number of businessmen from the National Party tried to create chaos and insecurity in the Egyptian streets The Egyptian Supreme State Security Court has carried out an investigation into the storming of the Israeli embassy in Cairo. The investigation has revealed that a number of businessmen from Mubarak’s now-banned National Democratic Party were involved in the attack.
According to investigations, headed by Justice Taher Al-Kholi, \"a number of businessmen from the National Party tried to create chaos and insecurity in the Egyptian streets to prove that the old regime was more committed to security and stability.\"
The Court believes that the “businessmen from the National Party gave the 134 defendants large sums of money to storm the Israeli embassy.”
According to a document, which Arabstoday has seen, a meeting was held between the businessmen and the defendants at the Party\'s headquarters in Giza on the 8th of September, the night before the attack.
It was allegedly agreed that the defendants would break into the Israeli embassy and demolish the compound’s wall in exchange for large sums of money. \"
Prosecutors have accused 19 of the defendants of breaking the embassy’s wall and storming the embassy.
They are also accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at the Security Directorate and the Ministry of the Interior building, and causing chaos and fear amongst Egyptians.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution listened to the testimony of four of the defendants yesterday.
One of the defendants, Hamid Rizk, said: \"I am a graduate from the University of Assiut. I came to Cairo on for an interview with the youth channel. As I returned to my house in Giza Square, I found a man lying on the ground. I went to help him, but I was surprised to find people throwing stones at us. When I tried to talk to them, an officer began shooting in the area. He then arrested number of people, including myself. Suddenly I was accused of storming the Israeli Embassy!\"
The prosecution released the defendant, Mustafa Saleh, a laborer, for health reasons, as he is recovering from a gunshot wound to the foot that was sustained during the embassy attack.
Many Egyptians have accused political forces, including the April 6 movement of being responsible for the attack, but the groups have denied involvement, claiming to have left Tahrir Square before the attack occurred.