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[Sign] The Camel Battle. Mohammed Aboul Enein, the main sponsor for the support of corruption.
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Who gives a damn about us?! What are we to do? Are we doing anything wrong?!
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[Caller: Mohammed Aboul Enein, President, Board of Directors, Ceramica Cleopatra] -The workers know very well how I treat them!
Any worker of mine is my priority, he is the one I protect,
[Sign] May God exact vengeance against the tyrant.
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[Left Sign] If you escaped the camels, you won't escape the workers. Camel: Tahrir. Signed, Cleopatra Ain el Sokhna [Right Sign] Abou el Enein. Loot: the Workers' Money
The Camel battle - Mohsen Hassan, the man in the black trenchcoat, standing on the bridge,
Everyone knows! Aboul-Enein sent him travelling, before the investigation began, he spent four months abroad until the investigations were over, then Mohsen Hassan, he came back.
Everyone knows, they talk about the guy in the black trenchcoat, standing next to a car, and so on... he's known!
The battle... what about the ceramic blocks being thrown?
The ceramic blocks that were used to attack the revolutionaries in Tahrir,
Where did this ceramic come from? And who owns it? The whole country knows the truth!
We're not demanding anything unusual,
We work with dangerous materials here,
I mean the materials for ceramic manufacturing, if you look to European countries,
These materials are banned. They're labelled as crude commodities.
They're harmful materials, poisonous, cancerous,
And they contain terrifying stuff, only known to experts on ceramic manufacturing,
Go in and check out the factory,
Go see what the raw materials are like,
I mean, chemical stuff.
Yet it's asking too much, that I take risk compensation?!
Go see what happens to our fellow workers when one of them gets hurt!
Because he dealt with glazing, and Zirconium, he suffered from bone erosion. He had to have an eardrum replacement.
And of course his skin is completely damaged,
And there's no cure. He is being treated on his own account, 400 pounds every month for ointments, so he can live.
I've been working at Ceramica Cleopatra since 2004. I've been in the company for eight years.
I was injured here in the company in 2010, in the heart of the company during the final shift, and I left,
They sent me to a hospital and Haj Mohammed was saying he'd pay for it,
I went to three hospitals in Suez,
All three of them refused to admit me,
I spent four hours hemmoraging in Suez, and my colleagues were with me,
If you ask my colleagues now they'll all tell you, and no hospital would take me. Haj Mohammed wouldn't pay.
They wouldn't let me go into any hospital, they said they'd write a report, that Haj Mohammed would cause a problem,
So Haj Mohammed was basically considered the President of the state at that moment.
So I went to the public hospital,
There too, the police general would take money from me, so I could find a doctor and have surgery.
My injury - I got a deficiency penalty of 25% - my injury couldn't have caused more than 5%
But the general hospital, they started cutting when I wasn't under anesthetic,
While I was awake, sitting there, and they messed it up even more,
I called Haj Mohammed and someone answered, and said Haj Mohammed doesn't have time for these silly things.
We're here for our legitimate rights, we have a right to profits,
The foreign investors are told that the workers' expenses, healthcare, profits and so on are covered.
We held a sit-in in 2006,
To demand a 100 LE wage raise. We pleaded to everyone, including the security forces,
But he would say - this was under the Mubarak days, with his hand on a state security General's shoulder - he would say, there is no authority in Egypt that will force me to give you an extra pound.
He would take out bank lounds - like, Ahmed Nazif signed a 100 million pound loan for him, on the spot.
When I apply for a 3,000 pound loan just to take my mother or someone else to the hospital, I need a co-signer who can guarantee half a feddan of land as collateral!
If I were employed in a state establishment, I would say no to the strike, because this is the state, and we have to protect it,
But this guy is leeching the life out of the people, and puts it in his pocket, not in the state,
He's immune to taxes, and from electric bills. I can't light a bulb in my home without an electricity meter,
If I have a measly hut I can't light a bulb in it without a meter.
This guy's got a giant factory here, and he's got an electricity flow for free!
Our final demand is from the government, which is now supposed to exist for the people, and is supposed to represent the people.
The government can not be a government for businessmen.
When we made the revolution, we did this in order to eliminate the government of businessmen,
We demand a government that represents the people. This government should come respond to our demands.
I hope the military council starts to notice that the civil disobedience has indeed started to take place,
But in an indirect way. Everyone was rejecting it, the media, the elders, the businessmen,
And here what's happening all over the country is strikes,
A strike is a form of civil disobedience. When you have 2 factories operational and 10 halted, all this impacts the country's income.
Those who want the country to flourish, those who want it to succeed, should protect the rights of workers first, who will produce, so that the country progresses.
The country's not going to grow on its own, nor by their capital alone. Their money is all overseas anyway.
There's no money in the country - the state is borrowing.
The industry costs pennies, yet accumulates millions for one person alone. -[Sign] Message to the Media: Where is your coverage of the struggle of workers in Ceramica Cleopatra Suez? Oh God, do away with the tyrant. Signed, the company workers, Suez.
[Sign] Just because you got away with the camels doesn't mean you'll get away from the workers. No to injustice. We are united, one hand. The workers are stronger than thunder.
His factory doesn't normally halt, not for any reason except an order from him.
But this time it's come to a halt upon the order of the workers, because the workers want their rights.
No one will be silent about their rights. We will remain, and continue, and we're not leaving here until we get our rights.
Whether it comes through courts, or European states, or human rights organizations,
The military council is living a honeymoon,
The field marshall (Tantawi) proved his complicity with Aboul Enein, that's all I will say. Tantawi, and the government, have proven their complicity with Mohammed Aboul Enein.
And I'm sending him a message from here: we will remain, we're not leaving!
[Sign] Ceramica Cleopatra Group, the pride of Egyptian industry, welcomes you. He would come here to visit and inaugurate the new factory,
And the ceramics are printed with this photo. He's still working convinced that the outgoing regime is still in power.
I suspect this guy is as powerful as the SCAF. How could someone, over 20 or 25 years, accumulate all these millions, and come to own land in pretty much every governorate in the republic??
A fortune probably worth over 500 billion,
From land to agricultural and mineral resources, fertilizers, quarries, factories, tourism, hotels, tourist towns... everything.
This is one of the fundamental bases of injustice, that one person rules over 15,000 workers and has all this power and privilege,
While any ordinary person goes to apply for 50 or 70m of land, or an apartment,
No one facilitates you getting an apartment.
Here in Suez alone, on this land we're standing on right here, here alone, he owns 23 million meters.
He pressures the government, and the workers, he does not relent,
So he can guarantee that they give him his loans, and forgive his debt, and reinstate any land they were trying to take from him,
So he's trying to use the workers to pressure the government, and he is assisted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
This is why we are seeking the interest of Egypt,
So God willing, we are continuing and we will not leave from here, until we take our rights,
And if he thinks he will punish us by withholding our wages when it's time to be paid, then no - we are planning from now, we are forming a committee,
Composed of all the political forces in the governorate,
And some of the departments here,
Like storage monitors, sales, and security,
We are planning to proceed on schedule and sell our product, and pay out wages,.
Lest he think he can twist our arms... cancelling our meals, not sending people their food... the game of holding one's breath can go on for very long.
And we will continue until the legal period has passed,
And workers can take the factory and own it,
This factory belongs to the workers, it was founded and built by the workers.
These workers are the most rightful people to take over this factory and run it.
After 17 days of the sit-in at the factory
The workers took most of their rights
[Criminal Court] Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Aboul Enein
And for every tyrant there comes an end.