The Muslim Brotherhood accused the Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ibrahim on Sunday of bringing fabricated charges against the group for alleging its involvement in the bombing of a Daqahlia Security Directorate.
The Muslim Brotherhood denied in a statement published on its Facebook page that the father of one of the defendants belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood saying the Interior Ministry alleged “a series of lies to overcome the impasse it had implicated itself in after it labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.”
“They charged the [MB] once the bombing occurred preempting investigations… and now they are searching for evidence,” the statement read.
“The Interior Minister is used to lying as he had claimed the [security forces] took into account international standards while breaking up Rabaa sit-in,” according to the statement .
The Interior Ministry accused the Muslim Brotherhood of being implicated in a number of terrorist incidents in different governorates in Egypt.
The minister said in a press conference on Thursday that the defendants confessed in detail committing the incidents in cooperation with Palestinians and Egyptians who belonged to the Brotherhood. He added they had been trained to carry out acts of terrorism in the Gaza Strip. The minister pledged during the conference to continue the prosecution of terrorists, and arrest perpetrators to achieve the security of the country.
"Amer Mossad Abdo Abdel Hameed,one of the group's members who has been arrested recently while possessing an automatic weapon and a quantity of ammunition and who held a bachelor of commerce confessed to have used the tunnels to the Gaza Strip along with Ahmed Faisal Yassin and Mohamed Ahmed Abdallah al-Sheikh, who are Brotherhood-affiliated, and the Palestinian Wesam Mohamed Mahmoud Eweda," the minister mentioned.
"Investigations concluded that the defendants had received military training in the Gaza Strip on the use of firearms, and confessed to committing several violent incidents, including the shooting of Mohamed Ahmed al-Ezaby who was injured in an anti-MB demonstration in Mansoura," according to Ibrahim.
"During the period subsequent to January 25, 2011, especially under the rule of toppled President Mohamed Morsy the Muslim Brotherhood sought to expand its base across the country, and sought rapprochement with its allies from militant factions to use their elements in the implementation of hostile plans," he said.
The defendants received logistical assistance from Hamas through trainings in Gaza at Qassam Brigades' camps, according to Ibrahim.
The defendants developed decoders, put a system to monitor aircrafts, and received a number of batplanes and a large amount of nitric acid, said Ibrahim.
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said in a press conference Thursday that there were eight perpetrators of the Mansoura bombing, including the one who executed the bombing and seven others who planned it, seven of whom have been arrested. The bombing took place in December 2013.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
