Leaked recordings of conversations between top generals suggest that the army, supported by the Gulf monarchies, may have helped to fund Tamarod, the grass-roots anti-Morsi campaign. On 29 June, our interview was delayed while Morsi negotiated with Sisi in the next-door room.
The die may have been cast, but it had not yet come to a rest. Even after 30 June, when millions turned out to oppose him , negotiations continued.
But as ever, the Brotherhood did not compromise. Throughout this final fortnight, people such as Aboul Ghar feared that Morsi might make some gesture of reconciliation, and so avert the worst of public anger. Absolutely nothing. On 3 July, he was arrested along with his closest advisers. And so began the still-unfinished crackdown on all Brotherhood activity. But as ever in Egypt, there is no single, linear truth.
It was the army who toppled Morsi, and whose leaders have since tried to stamp out dissent — Islamist and non-Islamist alike. The head of the supreme court was made acting president. For much of July, Baradei and a team from the EU led negotiations with the Brotherhood, attempting to get them to quit their huge protest camp at Rabaa al-Adawiya in east Cairo before the hardliners dismantled it by force.
The August massacre at Rabaa, which saw soldiers shoot dead over pro-Morsi protesters , was initially not a forgone conclusion. In mid-July, a general claimed to me that his fate had not yet been decided, and that he might even be released once the country calmed down.
But the longer the Brotherhood stayed in the streets, and the harsher their rhetoric became, the more likely a full-on crackdown seemed. Their intransigence became embarrassing for the new government, and gave more ammunition to those within it who wanted a harder-line solution.
At this point, Sisi was not yet officially heading the country — but Beblawi suggested he had an increasing say in how things were run. And his popularity at that time was very high. Morsi denounced the action as a "coup". His arrest was ordered by then armed forces chief - and now president - Abdul Fattah al-Sisi - and he was taken by the army to an undisclosed location, and was not heard from for weeks.
His supporters took to the streets of Cairo, demanding his release and immediate return to power. The army responded by breaking up two protest camps in the capital by force on 14 August and arresting key Brotherhood figures. Almost 1, people were killed in a crackdown the interim authorities portrayed as a struggle against "terrorism". In the years that followed Morsi's removal, Egypt witnessed an upsurge of violence by Islamist insurgents, and a brutal crackdown on the Brotherhood movement which was declared a terrorist group.
Morsi disappeared from public view, apart from periodic court appearances. In the meantime, his predecessor Hosni Mubarak was freed from jail - a signal to many that Egypt had not particularly moved on since before the elections which brought Morsi, briefly, to power. What became of Egypt's Morsi? Morsi became Egyptian president following the ousting of Hosni Mubarak two years earlier. At least 14 people were killed when opponents and supporters of Morsi clashed after the army announced his removal, officials said.
Eight of those died in the northern city of Marsa Matrouh, including two members of the security fources. Three people were killed and at least 50 wounded in Alexandria, state news agency MENA reported; a woman stabbed in the stomach, and two men killed by birdshot.
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