The Jamaa Islamiya fundamentalist movement, close to Morsi's supporters, denounces, in a statement, "the massacres committed by the military coup regime against peaceful sit-ins in Rabaa and Nahad". The organization has warned that if it does not change the situation in Egypt "there will be a global revolution throughout the country".
The count of victims is complex. The al-Jazeera envoy in Cairo counted 300 dead (800 wounded), in the field hospital in Rabaa al-Adawiyah square alone. A journalist from the France Presse agency counted 43 bodies in the makeshift morgue in Rabaa al-Adawiya square alone, the largest of the occupied ones. According to the Muslim Brotherhood, the former president's party, the victims would be more than 600, while the broadcaster al-Jazeera announces 120, quoting medical sources from the Rabaa field hospital. But the Ministry of Health denies all these budgets. At first he even denied the existence of casualties, later he admitted only 10 dead and 98 wounded civilians, the toll then rose to 15 dead and 203 wounded. Numerous leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested during and after the assaults by the security forces on the two tent cities set up in Cairo.
The European Union defines the news of the dead during the eviction of the pro-Morsi garrison "extremely worrying". Catherine Ashton, spokeswoman for the EU, underlined how "violence will not lead to any solution" , then appealing to the Egyptian authorities to proceed with "maximum self-control". Even the Foreign Minister, Emma Bonino, comments on the news of the clashes, addressing all the forces in the field in Egypt to do "everything in their power to stop the violence that has broken out in the country and avoid a bloodbath".
Egypt's interim government is calling on protesters "to show wisdom and to put the interests of the homeland before everything else". The Egyptian Council of Ministers also unloads the responsibility for the degeneration of the security situation in the country on the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. To avoid further demonstrations in other Egyptian cities, the government then suspended rail traffic to and from Cairo. In Alessandria, the crowd took to the streets blocking the center; clashes were also recorded in Assiut, 350 km from Cairo, while the seat of the governorate was surrounded in Aswan.
