Hosni Mubarak’s trial resumed on Thursday with new speeches by the defense, after his lawyer, Farid Al-Deeb, affirmed that the court lacks evidence that the former president ordered to shoot opposition demonstrators.
The hall of Cairo’s Criminal Court, set up for this case in the Police Academy, was reopened in the presence of the defense attorneys for Mubarak and the relatives of victims and of 846 people killed in the 2011 repression.
According to judicial sources, Thursday’s session deals about the defense of Al-Deeb, who on Tuesday presented the testimonies of two senior officers who reminded the court that there is no evidence of Mubarak’s involvement.
The lawyer quoted former Minister of Defense and current head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (CSFA), Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and the former chief of intelligence, Omar Suleiman, who exonerated Mubarak.
Both officers denied that the president had ordered to open fire at the demonstrators, who rose up on January 25, 2011, when hundreds of thousands of youths took to the streets and 18 days later they overthrew the Mubarak regime.
There is no evidence that Mubarak gave orders to open fire at demonstrators, said Al-Deeb, one of five lawyers defending the former head of state, his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, and former Minister of the Interior Habib El-Adli.
Six other high-ranking officers in the Central Security Forces are also being tried in this case.
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