Yesterday, at 7.30am, seven Central Security Forces trucks pulled up at the entrance to Parliament St. The latest part of the administrative centre of Cairo to be occupied by revolutionaries.
As they arrived everyone quickly sprung from under their blankets and ran to stand in the road in front of them, chanting at them, waving them away.
After a few minutes of uncertainty, the trucks began to turn, slowly, to head away.
The seven trucks chaotically U-Turned, gently bumping into each other as they went.
They turned the corner and drove away. We had won, they had been driven away. Then, one minute later, a group of men are running towards us carrying a body on their shoulders. The 19 year old body of Ahmed al Sayed Sorour.
When I saw him his lower half was covered in blood and he was unconscious. Later, we would re-trace the little puddles to find the spot he was injured in.
He was raced to an ambulance in Tahrir and taken to hospital. Two hours later it was confirmed that he had died.
Vlogger and activist @sarrahsworld was with his family at the hospital and then the morgue. She reported that the coroner announced he had died of a 'shattered pelvis.'
State TV / SCAF began broadcasting their version of events from around 9am, stating that the trucks had taken a wrong turn and, in their panicked retread, had run Surour over, and he had died of a shattered pelvis.
This is being pushed as the narrative, but based on what I saw on the day and research done since, I believe it is a lie.
There are two main component to the State narrative:
1. The trucks had taken a wrong turn.
Apart from the clear absurdity of this statement, which implies that several units of the police were unaware that there was a revolution going on in the centre of Cairo, we can see from the video below that seven trucks arrived and parked simultaneously. And they arrived in rows of two which, for trucks in transit, is irregular.
2. Ahmed Surour was killed by being run over
There are several reasons to believe this is untrue:
- The trucks are not moving very quickly at all. Though it was chaotic it hardly seems chaotic enough for an able-bodied young man to be run over.
- The nature of the wound does not look like it resulted from impact with a vehicle. Look at this still image from the video. It clearly looks like a single bullet hole to his lower back.
- The cause of death at the morgue was stated to be a "shattered pelvis," which made room for SCAF to declare he was run over. But, according to the actor, Khalid Abdalla, a bullet to the pelvis can cause massive shattering of the bone, leading to a fatal internal haemorrhage. He knows this through conversations with an American sniper, who was working as a technical advisor on his last film Green Zone. The sniper told him that they are, in fact, trained to aim for the pelvis with their first shot because it is lethal shot, though it doesn't appear so at first. Then, when people gather around the victim to find out what has happened, they are picked off one by one with head shots.
I am not implying that he was killed by a sniper, but this piece of information tells us that it is possible to die from one bullet wound to the lower back. Which leads me to believe that SCAF are lying about Sorour's cause of death and that he was shot by a policeman.
As they arrived everyone quickly sprung from under their blankets and ran to stand in the road in front of them, chanting at them, waving them away.
After a few minutes of uncertainty, the trucks began to turn, slowly, to head away.
The seven trucks chaotically U-Turned, gently bumping into each other as they went.
They turned the corner and drove away. We had won, they had been driven away. Then, one minute later, a group of men are running towards us carrying a body on their shoulders. The 19 year old body of Ahmed al Sayed Sorour.
When I saw him his lower half was covered in blood and he was unconscious. Later, we would re-trace the little puddles to find the spot he was injured in.
He was raced to an ambulance in Tahrir and taken to hospital. Two hours later it was confirmed that he had died.
Vlogger and activist @sarrahsworld was with his family at the hospital and then the morgue. She reported that the coroner announced he had died of a 'shattered pelvis.'
State TV / SCAF began broadcasting their version of events from around 9am, stating that the trucks had taken a wrong turn and, in their panicked retread, had run Surour over, and he had died of a shattered pelvis.
This is being pushed as the narrative, but based on what I saw on the day and research done since, I believe it is a lie.
There are two main component to the State narrative:
1. The trucks had taken a wrong turn.
Apart from the clear absurdity of this statement, which implies that several units of the police were unaware that there was a revolution going on in the centre of Cairo, we can see from the video below that seven trucks arrived and parked simultaneously. And they arrived in rows of two which, for trucks in transit, is irregular.
2. Ahmed Surour was killed by being run over
There are several reasons to believe this is untrue:
- The trucks are not moving very quickly at all. Though it was chaotic it hardly seems chaotic enough for an able-bodied young man to be run over.
- The nature of the wound does not look like it resulted from impact with a vehicle. Look at this still image from the video. It clearly looks like a single bullet hole to his lower back.
- The cause of death at the morgue was stated to be a "shattered pelvis," which made room for SCAF to declare he was run over. But, according to the actor, Khalid Abdalla, a bullet to the pelvis can cause massive shattering of the bone, leading to a fatal internal haemorrhage. He knows this through conversations with an American sniper, who was working as a technical advisor on his last film Green Zone. The sniper told him that they are, in fact, trained to aim for the pelvis with their first shot because it is lethal shot, though it doesn't appear so at first. Then, when people gather around the victim to find out what has happened, they are picked off one by one with head shots.
I am not implying that he was killed by a sniper, but this piece of information tells us that it is possible to die from one bullet wound to the lower back. Which leads me to believe that SCAF are lying about Sorour's cause of death and that he was shot by a policeman.
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