Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the ministry has developed a plan to secure the presidential elections and the candidates, affirming that the ministry is politically neutral.
“We expect terrorist attacks during the elections,” he said. “But we know how to address this.”
He told Sada al-Balad on Thursday that the ministry will soon announce the fall of a number of terrorist cells who they say have confessed to murder, arson and assault. “Our strikes are proactive,” he said.
Regarding the report of the National Council for Human Rights on the dispersal of the Rabaa and al-Nahda sit-ins, Ibrahim said it contained certain positive points when it said the sit-ins were armed, the ministry gave an ultimatum, and the first victims were from the police, yet it also contained incorrect information about not giving enough time for the protesters to leave and about the number of victims that the Muslim Brotherhood mentioned.
“We kept warning them for 27 and everyone knew when we were going to move,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
