DVD reveals footage of snipers shooting protesters at random

Former President Hosni Mubarak in his trial cage North Cairo’s criminal court has continued to look at evidence against Mubarak. Six new video tapes were watched by them, taken from Egyptian Intelligence, each one of the space of 8GB, containing evidence against the accused in the case against killing protestors in the 25 January revolution. Mohamed Assem, the supervisor responsible for watching the DVDs, watched 15 DVDs on Saturday which contained scenes of clashes between security forces and protestors and martyrs, in addition to footage of people escaping prison as one of them shouted: “hurry to your houses, Intelligence is outside”, and of policemen pulling away from the streets. The DVDs, which were handed in by lawyer Ameer Salem, Civil claimant, it turned out that the DVD also contains recordings of wireless phone calls where security officers were asking for help from Brigadier Ahmed Al Mitwalli saying: “save us, they’re burning security forces’ cars and their numbers are increasing and we need gas,” also describing the situation as ‘dangerous.’ The officer also called for help using his wireless phone by saying: “5M,” referring to the man number 5 in the Ministry of Interior. Other footage showed peaceful protestors being shot at from the top of the Ministry of Interior, where a number of policemen could be seen spreading on its roof and randomly shooting at people using a weapon attached to a lead full of bullets which extends to the floor. More footage showed saboteurs breaking into a cars showroom and then smashing cars. In addition, there was footage of burning areas of shopping malls and stealing goods by men and women, showing one of them saying: “Egypt is hungry.” Further footage showed snipers aiming with red and green laser lights at protestors only to see numbers of them falling to the ground afterwards. There was also footage of an armored car running over protestors by Qasr al-Nil Bridge, then driving backwards and running over police officers and army officers as well. Some footage showed th eprotest by some Ministry of Interior officers against the Ministry and other footage of the withdrawal of officers from their positions and the unknown intrusion and theft of weapons in addition to the burning of state security bases.