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Luxor would be better off without any police at all.
Al-Bairat village, Luxor Governorate
They're the terrorists—they storm peoples' houses and beat them.
There is hatred in their hearts.
This is a kid of 17. They beat him up.
They came with a court summons.
He didn't make a fuss
but the officers kicked in the doors and smashed the house up
They broke everything.
I pleaded that there were women sleeping inside.
He said, "You're all women!"
How could they do that?
Is that what these officers are trained to do?
They kicked the small children,
Little children!
And they hit the women.
What are we supposed to do?
If this is what Egypt has become, we should all leave!
It was a court summons, not even a fine.
A clerk should come with a summons
which you respond to, or contest.
Instead a senior security official showed up
while they let bandits and murderers run wild!
No, they're coming after poor people.
They claimed in their report that we attacked them!
Yeah right, which one of us was it??
The police are Israel and we're the Palestinians.
The police want revenge
It's like they're not even Egyptians.
It's just like what happened at the Presidential Palace.
Two top security guys dragged that poor man along the ground.
He was dragged 120 metres
while they beat him with the butts of their guns
Beating a kid of 17!
The police are the thugs.
The police are the terrorists.
The police are the savage dogs who attack innocent people.
It would be better to die in our homes.
At least then we'd die with dignity.
Perhaps then the state would be satisfied.
We won't stay silent about state terrorism.