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Published on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 01:56
Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian
Photographer Who Chronicled His Own
Death [Video]
(the Telegraph By Robert Tait and
Magdy Samaan) --
He fires more than
once and then,
suddenly, turns the
rifle and points
toward the camera
lens.The film ends –
and so too ended
the life of AhmedSamir Assem.The
26-year-old photographer for Egypt’s Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala
newspaper was among a least 51 people killed after
security forces opened fire on a large crowd that had
camped outside the Egyptian army’s Republican Guard
officers’ club in Cairo, where Mohammed Morsi, the
deposed president, was believed to be in detention.Mr
Assem had been on the scene as the pro-Muslim
Brotherhood protesters knelt for prayer shortly before dawn
on Monday morning.According to friends and relatives, the
moment of his own death was captured as the grainy film
culminates.
News of Mr Assem’s death filtered through after his
bloodied camera and mobile phone were found at the site
of the makeshift camp.
“At around 6am, a man came into the media centre with a
camera covered in blood and told us that one of our
colleagues had been injured,” said Ahmed Abu Zeid, the
culture edi tor of Mr Assem’s newspaper, who was working
from a facility set up next to the Rabaa al-Adawiya
mosque, about a mile away.
“Around an hour later, I received news that Ahmed had
been shot by a sniper in the forehead while filming or
taking pictures on top of the buildings around the incident.
“Ahmed’s camera was the only one which filmed the entire
incident from the first moment.
“He had started fi lming from the beginning of the prayers
so he captured the very beginnings and in the video, you
can see tens of victims. Ahmed’s camera will remain a
piece of evidence in the violations that have been
committed.”
Like much else about Monday’s incident, the exact
circumstances of the shooting are hard to prove. However,
other witnesses to whom The Daily Telegraph spoke have
described snipers being stationed on buildingsoverlooking the site, which is in an area dominated by
military installations.
Excerpts of a 20-minute video said to have been recorded
by Mr Assem as the horror unfolded in front of him were
shown at a Muslim Brotherhood press conference and are
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now being touted as evidence of a massacre on the
streets of Egypt’s capital.
The other video, which purports to show the final seconds
before Mr Assem was shot, have now been put on to his
Facebook page, although the provenance of it could not be
independently verified by The Daily Telegraph.
What is certain, friends say, is that Mr Assem has left a
vivid testimony of events whose origins have been hotly
disputed. Mr Morsi’s supporters say they were fired on
from behind without provocation while they were praying.
The army insists that security forces only fired after
protesters attempted to storm the Republican Guard
facility.
There have also been suggestions that the original firing
may have come from agents provocateurs, triggering a
wave of violence.
Whatever the truth, the Muslim Brotherhood says Mr
Assem’s last film bears out its version of events and says it
plans to use it as evidence — though it had not responded
to requests for a physical copy by the time of publication.
However, Mr Assem’s brother, Eslam, 29, said the
footage’s last seconds showed a soldier shooting
demonstrators from a roof. The soldier then turned his gun
towards Mr Assem and the film suddenly went dead, he
added.
Colleagues described Mr Assem, a graduate of Cairo
University’s communications department, as a dedicated
professional who had amassed an archive of 10,000
photographs since starting his career as a photographer
three years ago.
His work for Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala — the official
newspaper of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim
Brotherhood’s political wing — put him in the front line of
Egypt’s political turmoil. It had also put him at odds with his
family, who were supporters of the late Egyptian nationalist
leader, Gamal Abdal Nasser.
As Mr Assem’s friends and family mourned, Adly Mansour,
Egypt’s new interim president, unveiled a draft constitution
to replace the one drafted by Islamists and suspended last
week. A committee will be set up to make final
improvements to the document before it is put to a
referendum. Parliamentary elections will then follow within
three months and a date for a presidential election will beset once the parliament has convened.
Mr Mansour also named Mohammed ElBaradei, the former
head of the UN atomic energy watchdog, as vice-president
in charge of foreign affairs and Hazem al-Beblawi, a
former finance minister, as prime minister.
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