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OUSTED EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Mohamed Morsi is to stand trial in a criminal court for “incitement to murder”, state television has reported.
It said the former leader would stand trial along with 14 other suspects in his Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of “incitement to murder and violence” in December 2012 when deadly clashes broke out between his supporters and opponents outside the presidential palace.
Already accused of crimes related to his 2011 escape from prison, Morsi has been held at a secret location since his ouster by the army on July 3.
The co-defendants in the trial include senior Brotherhood figures Mohamed al-Beltagi and leaders such as Essam el-Erian, deputy head of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood’s political wing.
Last December, thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the presidential palace in Cairo to protest against a presidential decree that expanded Morsi’s powers and an Islamist-drafted constitution.
A court in July ordered Morsi’s detention for questioning over alleged ties with Palestinian militants in prison breaks and attacks on police.
Egypt has pressed a fierce campaign against the Brotherhood since the former president’s ouster and effectively decapitated the Islamist group by arresting its supreme guide Mohamed Badie in late August.
Authorities have also arrested more than 2,000 Brotherhood figures since Morsi’s ouster.
Brotherhood defendants, including Badie, were due to appear in court on August 25 but kept away for what authorities said were security reasons. A new hearing is to take place on October 29.
Badie and his deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad al-Bayoumi face charges related to the deaths of protesters who stormed the Brotherhood’s Cairo headquarters on June 30.
Three other Brotherhood members are standing trial with the leaders, accused of carrying out the murders at the end of June.
Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour announced a 50-member panel yesterday to draw up a revised constitution but without the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood which has declined to take part.
The Muslim Brotherhood has lost its ability to bring people out in large numbers because of the sweeping arrests that have netted its top leaders.
On Friday several thousand Egyptians protested in Cairo in support of Morsi, far fewer than had been hoped for by harried Islamists, who had called for mass rallies.
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, served for only a year before the military ousted him in the popularly backed coup in July.
Have to feel for the retailers in Cork city, being flooded on the last day of retail before lockdown for 6 weeks, now being left with potentially damaged stock and stores.
@LangerDan: sounds like a good time to be closed getting compensation from government
Don’t worry lads the Greens have it sorted, pay the extra bit of tax on the petrol and the sea level will be back down to normal next year
@Quiet Goer: river channels should have been dredged years ago.
@Quiet Goer: yeah blame the people who pointed this scenario out years ago and offered solutions which were widely ignored, but sure whatever helps you deal with it
@Dave Barrett: Tell that you the ineffective City Council who are quick to tax retailers but unable or unwilling to tackle the problem that can shut down them down . We need people with passion for their city to become city councillors
@Dave Barrett: how will dredging a river stop the sea from flooding? This flood is because of a storm causing higher than normal tides, nothing to do with the Lee.
@Mary Mc Carthy: city council have been trying to commence the floor relief project for years, but certain groups are constantly bringing it to judicial review in an attempt to stop it. Had the project been allowed to go ahead day one, we would not be having this conversation
@Aaron: You and I are not having a conversation! . I was born and reared in this city and expressing my views .
@Frank Carty: it has everything to do with the River and the failure of successive councils and politicians to find a workable solution to this problem
@Mary Mc Carthy: thats sea water thats flooding cork, not river water.
@Mary Mc Carthy: and I as a fellow citizen of Cork City are telling you that your view that this is all the council’s fault is an unfair one at best, as they have been trying to install a flood defence scheme for years, but Save Cork City won’t have it. However as you say, “we are not having a conversation”
@Dave Barrett:
It has nothing to do with dredging the river.
The river is not in flood
It was the the tide – half meter higher due to low pressure and easterly wind.
@Dave Barrett: Dredging the river in Cork City would have absolutely no impact on flooding. It is a tidal river. Any extra depth in the riverbed would be immediately filled with river/sea water. You would need to dredge the Atlantic Ocean.
Traders needed this like a hole in the head. Like the health services this part of our infrastructure should have been dealt with long ago.
@Carlin Ite: They’ve been talking about putting in barriers since I was little, that’s a long time ago and still nothing’s done. Poor Cork.
@Rachel O’ Meara: In fairness, nothing is being done because of objection after objection to the plans to actually do something. The “Save Cork” group has gone to the European Commission now while they continue to drag this out. Meanwhile businesses continue to flood…
@Gavin Conran: talk about an ironic name.. allowing flooding like this to happen can hardly be described as saving cork,like.
@Gavin Conran: correct and right, so easy to blame the council
Tidal Barrier
@Nicholas O’Halloran: It’s bizarre that people are talking about building a light rail system at an estimated cost of €1,000,000,000 but we’re told we can’t afford €140,000,000 for a tidal barrier we clearly need more urgently.
@Fifty Shades of Sé: Its not a money issue – the flood defense plan was costed at about 150,000,000..which continues to be delayed due to objections.
@Gavin Conran: Unfortunately a project being costed in this country means nothing. Our civil servants do not have the skill set to draw up a contract to protect the taxpayer the taxpayer from unscrupulous developers. The last major infrastructure project near me was the Tralee bypass costed at €30million and finally cost €76million excluding vat. the contractor involved has history in inflating project costs. Dont get me started on the likes of the Childrens hospital.
@Fifty Shades of Sé: 140k tidal barrier…….. Sounds about right
@Nicholas O’Halloran: tidal barrier would have only partially mitigated this flood. As it was caused by both tide and rain a tidal barrier would have reduced the tidal portion but trapped the excess water from the rain so may not have had a great affect. Sorting the quay walls mitigates again both tidal and rainfall flooding
@Aaron: You missed three zeros, he said 140m (140’000’000) not 140k (140’000).
@Diarmuid Hunt: apologies, they was my typo, meant m not k. However I stand by my point, a workable tidal barrier for 140m is comparable to newbuild 6 bed detached in Blackrock for 50k……dreamland
Cork city has big problems with drainage as the lower parts are built on bog land
@Colonel kurtz: and it’s an island
@King B: And what an island?! Best island on this island!
@Colonel kurtz: you really need to put in a contingency when the name of your town is the Irish for swamp. Even so, there really needs to be a serious effort to reduce flooding, to the point of a tidal barrier over the lynch tunnel. This will get worse, and the loss to the the entire trading is something not faced in other cities.
@King B: Yes, built on a series of islands all paved over to make one larger one
@Rachel O’ Meara: You’re not wrong :)
@Rachel O’ Meara: the Venice of Ireland
@King B: The center of Cork is built on about 13 islands.
Drove in for work this morning and it was getting bad around 7.30am. Be careful on the Quays near Paul Street carpark
@Sean Mullen: bad was I was working in Michael Guiney’s on Oliver Plunkett Streer doing security. The whole city flooded I just remember the tidal surge coming up OPS closing the store doors few minutes later we were stuffing the gaps in the door with duvets to stop the water. Emergency services told us to move upstairs and wait to be rescued by boat. That was bad
@Tom Harpur Photography: Bad…pah…I tell you about bad . . it was the year
As someone from Cork this city has been flooding since ‘Noah was a boy ‘ as we say in Cork . Successive city councils and their engineers have been unable or unwilling to tackle the problem . Instead they waste their time giving planning permission to ugly big buildings that have and will become eye sores in a once beautiful city .They have filed this city and its inhabitants
@Mary Mc Carthy: typo * failed *
Sympathy for traders in downtown Cork. However, Cork ( Corcaigh) is built on a series of islands and the name means “Marsh”. When I lived ther, I remember the river coming up through the drains in Oliver Plunkett Street and flooded Grand Parade. Cork has a mild but very damp climate. Always had flood issues.
Don’t get it twisted Dubs, we are still the real capital, this is but a set back, we still have the title.
@Aaron: langers built a city on a flood plain and then complain about flooding!
Death, taxes, and someone making a greens tax related joke on any article on this website that has to do with global warming.
The tidal barrier is the only future for cork. Get that built or suffer this time and time again
Anyone have any good newz
They’re always getting flooded. I am guessing the council have tried and tried again and have failed to prevent this?
The insurance companies should be covering for this but if they are able to refuse at least allow the business to show they’ve done all they can to prevent the flooding.
I’ve seen a few doors with flood barriers in front of them so hopefully they’ve worked.
Did cork centre not flood before or this only a recent thing in the last 20 years?
@cill123: cork has been flooding as long anyone can remember, cork is tidal and a southerly wind with a tidal surge causes flooding in the city centre
@cill123: there’s a pub in the city center on Patricks Street with steps down to where you tie up your boat. Arguably, or at least one of, Cork’s oldest pub. The river used to flow along Patricks Street back in the day.
@Kieran Brennan: yes and grand parade and south mall and the Coal Quay.
I’m surprised it doesn’t just float away.
@Padraic McDonagh: I wish it would!
@Ciaran Daly: slow clap for that distasteful comment. Businesses under the cosh big time after an economically catastrophic year and when the city floods, you think it’s clever to say “I wish it would float away”?
Stay classy Ciaran.
@Padraic McDonagh: Yes cork tends to float!!!
Incredible how the city has never been flooded before. They might want to start thinking about flood prevention in the next few years…..on the off chance it ever happens again.
Level 5 caused the flood. We are okay at level 4.
@biggybald: Oops it’s already in related reads. My apologies Sean.
The Taoiseach as have many Cork Politicians before him , have been aware of the problems causing the flooding long before today . They , as have the City Councillors , betrayed the people and the city they are supposed to represent by not finding a solution to this problem . Nobody wants platitudes now . It’s past time they do the job they were elected for .
It’s God’s way of telling us what a badly run country we have and how soft the people of Ireland have become
Meehall is dogged with bad luck ever since he pulled the short straw for temporary Taoiseach.
Its true that your Generals not only need to be good, but lucky as well.
Wish him better fortune, cos we need it as well.
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