Murmures

La police égyptienne interdit à la société civile d’accéder à la Place Tahrir, afin de fêter l’anniversaire de la Révolution ? Armés d’une caméra, un réalisateur/ animateur d’une émission tv satirique et un acteur s’invitent sur le mode de la dérision. La police rit jaune et les deux auteurs sont menacés actuellement pour leur satire (intelligente et non violente). La vidéo a été vue plus de deux millions de fois sur internet.

LIRE L’INTEGRALITE (en anglais) sur http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/world/middleeast/egyptian-satirist-threatened-for-giving-police-condom-balloons.html

An Egyptian comedian who works as a correspondent for a popular satirical television program could be in legal trouble for handing balloons made of inflated condoms to police officers in Tahrir Square on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak.

Video of the prank showed the comedian, Shady Abu Zaid, and a young actor, Ahmed Malek, pretending to celebrate a national holiday in honor of Egypt’s police by giving unwitting officers the balloons. The video became a sensation on Facebook, where it was viewed more than 1.4 million times through Tuesday afternoon.

Authorities had encouraged citizens to celebrate Police Day on Jan. 25, and they enforced a strict ban on antigovernment demonstrations. The revolution had started on that day five years ago with street protests driven largely by outrage over the impunity of the country’s police force.

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