The Egyptian regime has a plan to assassinate opponents living abroad, the head of the Ghad party alleged yesterday.
“The idea advocated by Asim Hanafi a year ago to assassinate opponents abroad has been transformed from intimidation into planning,” Ayman Nour wrote on Twitter.
In February 2015, Egyptian newspaper El-Masry Al-Youm published an article by Asim Hanafi, entitled “Start with the Brotherhood”, in which he said countries may resort, in some cases, to secretive work to assassinate the leaders of organisations that use violence against citizens.
Hanafi said: “To face the Spanish separatist organisation (ETA), which exercised violence and terrorised Spanish society for years, the government found a genius solution: Every time the separatist organisation assassinated a policeman for example, the response was the assassination of a prominent ETA political leader. The Spanish government has not done so publicly, but secretly by assigning an unknowns organisation to carry out the assassinations of ETA’s best members and popular leaders.”
On Monday, Egypt’s interior ministry announced the death of Mohammed Kamal, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau and former president of the group’s Supreme Administrative Committee, as well as another Muslim Brotherhood member who accompanied him, during an exchange of gunfire in Cairo’s Basateen area.