Egypt Army Announced that They Will not Tolerate “Political Militias”
By Samira Arabi
Morocco News Tribune
Agadir, Morocco | Ahram Online reported Monday that Egypt army will not tolerate ‘political militias’ of any sort after the office of Egypt’s prosecutor-general gave the green light to members of the public to make citizen’s arrests of anyone found committing acts of vandalism.
Such acts would would open the door to the formation of “private militias” and raise the spectre of “civil war.”, a military source told the newspaper.
The military source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was pointing to the Islamist groups, which expressed intentions to set up ‘popular committees’ to replace striking police officers.
“This policy crosses the state’s red lines…the armed forces will not accept anything that threatens national security,” the military source told Ahram.
It is worth mentioning that Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya’s Construction and Development Party declared last week their plans to to establish ‘security committees’ in several Upper Egyptian cities to replace police personnel after the latter went on strike.