Von Amr Khalifa
Over thirty Egyptians did not return home last night and Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of Interior, shoulders responsibility. You can be certain the honorable minister is not the only party culpable in the second disaster of its kind to strike Egyptian football in the last three years, 74 lives having been extinguished in Port Said previously.
The problems of Egypt certainly cannot be placed on the shoulders of one person and if Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is to lead by example, he must both shoulder the blame and accept Ibrahim’s resignation or face a rising tide of anger. The harm done to the families of the dead is immeasurable, but the political damage done to the Al-Sisi regime in the wake of this tragedy, if not handled correctly, maybe irreversible.