By Marwa Al-A’asar
CAIRO: Thousands of citizens are expected to take to the main streets of Suez on Tuesday. Their demands to sack the governor and the police directorate chief have been ignored.
“We will keep protesting until they go away,” one protester told Daily News Egypt.
“They are responsible for the killing and injuring of dozens of people during the protests held at the end of last month,” he added.
A number of Suez lawyers have traveled to Cairo to join the protesters in Tahrir Square.
“Why did not the prime minister respond to the rage of Suez citizens who have been calling for the resignation of the police directorate chief and the governor?” another protester said.
Dozens of Suez citizens have been killed since the protests first erupted on Jan. 25 and hundreds more injured.
“The official number announced says only 17 have been killed and 250 injured since Jan. 25,” a medical source told Daily News Egypt, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“But I swear, I saw dozens of dead bodies in the morgue and over 500 wounded,” he added.
During the Jan. 25 protests, riot-control forces used live ammunition resulting in dozens of casualties, an act that stirred citizen’s outrage and led them to hold more demonstrations on the following days that witnessed more violence on both sides.
