Egypt investigates Israeli embassy attack

Egypt has carried out investigations into the storming of the Israeli embassy and Giza Security Directorate. Citizens have told the Ministry of Interior that a businessman from the former-ruling party, the National Democratic Party, had offered to pay them 100,000 Egyptian pounds (US$17,000) to break into the embassy. Prosecutors have ordered the establishment of a team to capture the businessman, but his mobile phone has been turned off and he has changed his address. Some of the accused yesterday told the Court that former-members of the ruling party had paid thugs 5,000 Egyptian pounds (US$1000) each to storm the Israeli embassy. These thugs were told to stand amongst groups of young people and ignite underlying tensions that followed Israel’s killing of Egyptian soldiers on the Egyptian-Israeli border last month.