Egypt: FPA - Some Colleagues Succumbed to Fatal Attacks

Without taking sides in the internal conflict, I consider it our duty to make our members aware of a seriously increasing danger for our journalistic performance and even lives. Unfortunately, some of our colleagues succumbed to fatal attacks. They were not just victims of chaos or normal fire exchange, the

y had been fired at on purpose. Not by police or army officers, but by the self proclaimed "peaceful demonstrators". Today I myself happily escaped a mean sniper attack on the 15 Mayo bridge at Zamalek. The criminal was not a policeman either, I have witnesses for that fact-normal Egyptian citizen bypassers.

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