Direto das manifestações no Cairo:
‘Tomorrow, to Tahrir Again’ |
On Tuesday, the protesters had been on edge; no one knew which way things would go and what the government would do. Now—despite the initial fears following the Internet and phone blackout Friday morning—everyone I asked described feelings of “exhilaration” and “euphoria.” Riot police were everywhere, but the crowd outnumbered them. The demographic of the protesters had shifted too: from Tuesday’s activist movement dominated by young upper middle-class Egyptians with Twitter accounts had broadened to include masses of middle-class and lower middle-class people, even children. It had become a popular movement.
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Saturday’s curfew had been set for 4 PM, but it was already 3 PM, and at least 40,000 people were in the area around Tahrir Square by then. No one was planning to go home. Young men started to distribute bananas and biscuits. They also organized the crowds and began to patrol the area for signs of disruption. The people and the army increasingly seemed to be united—civilians sat on army tanks chatting with the soldiers. People were now chanting “The people and the army want the system to change.”
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