Copts Maspero, breaking up their sit-in and cleaning the place

After thirteen days of the sit-ins continued and push and pull with the Egyptian government and the church. Advertise Coptic protesters in front of the television Nile Cornish broke up the protest and the protesters to collect their belongings in preparation for departure from the front of Maspero and return to their homes. They also raise the tents that were erected in front of the Maspero. And removed the barbed wire and metal barriers that have been developed to close the Nile Corniche Road in both directions to traffic, as they clean the street and back again to the image that it was in before the start of the sit, in the tradition of Egypt is being followed since the revolution of January 25.

The Archbishop Menkerios, the priest of the Church of St. Mark, it was the resolution of protest after the security forces and military police for the release of the Copts the eight who were arrested after wrangling that took place between Muslims and Copts are the first Thursday during the opening of the Church of the Virgin into the sun, which objected to Muslims on the opening, as well as the Ministry of the Interior opened the church of Saint Ioannis town of Beni Mazar-Minia Governorate and the Church of the Virgin City Sadfa Assiut Governorate, and that an initial step to ending the interior of the reopening of 16 churches again by next Wednesday, in addition to the military junta for the release of 17 detainees out of 18 were dropped arrested in a sit-Maspero, first in March (March) last year.

A group of residents of Ain Shams (north of Cairo) has surrounded the Church of the Virgin, refusing to open based on a decision of the Minister of Local Development and the Egyptian Council of Ministers, where the Citizens said that the headquarters factory has been closed for 3 years and there is no licenses to convert to the Church, but there are attempts to sign him to the Church of the Virgin neighbors after buying the church property of the plant, which is what the holidays break-Maspero on Thursday afternoon, and repeated yesterday after Friday prayers, where hundreds of Muslims to the factory Almazh lingerie CSS in the eye of the sun, stressing that they will not let convert to the Church, and extinguish the fire of sedition agreed senior Muslim and Christian families in the eye of the sun on customary to hold a hearing this evening (Saturday) to end the crisis in the Church of the Virgin in order to avoid renewed wrangling that accompanied the opening procedures of the Church.

The claims of precedent for the holding of traditional councils to settle squabbles sectarian renewable in the past has raised controversy great among political activists and jurists, which witnessed a crisis similar sectarian such as the crisis Atfih council customarily attended by calling the ancestral senior Mohamed Hassan, among others, and observers believe that the councils serve as a dedication to the absence of rule of law in Egypt, and confirm the absence of formal role in resolving disputes amicably.

The Archbishop Menkerios that will be given a deadline for the junta and the government of Dr. honor until June 13 (June) next to respond to the rest of the requests of Coptic need to have adequate time to implement them, particularly the arrest of the perpetrators and instigators of the events of Imbaba and Abu Qurqas and Atfih and all the participants in the attacks on the Copts both before the revolution or after January 25 and punished.

On the other hand, opposed the group of young protestors idea of ​​the resolution of the sit-and engaged in heated arguments with priests who are on the stage sit-in at the announcement of Archbishop Menkerios Disengagement protest, stressing their desire to continue to sit until they achieve all the demands and to avoid any delays in implementation by the military or the government of Dr. honor. For his part, called George Isaac, General Coordinator of the Movement of the adequacy of the protesters patient to the Government of the honor and the military junta on the reopening of churches, stressing at the same time that the demands of the protesters are legitimate and not a class, as the church is not Coptic, but Egyptian, and invited them to comment sit until the implementation of the demands, but they refused at first and asked him to disembark from the top of the podium. In a related development, is scheduled to consider tomorrow the Court Boulaq Abul Ela Court, north of Cairo, the first trial of 18 accused in the events of Maspero, and after that were referred by the Attorney-General Counselor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on trial for committing crimes, bullying, and review of force and violence with the victims, and intimidation and intimidation and endangering their lives and their safety at risk.