Egyptian Chronicles: The Message Was Received

Let the media craze starts !!

Last night was the Suzanne Tamim murder trial on TV , I could not believe myself from the amount of time and coverage given to the trial. It was insane by all means.

I understand very that it is not everyday when you have such crimes with all its juicy details but I am for hours and hours dedicated to one single trial and I am sorry to say after watching hours from different programs on different channels that there was nothing new in all these programs whether from the questions or from the answers.

There was nothing new at all ; Sokary lawyers are insisting that he was innocent depending on scientific evidence and Hisham Talaat Mustafa lawyers are having faith in the veto and in between we have the endless debate about who is the husband of Suzanne Tamim !!!

I understand the seriousness of this trial with all its juicy parts from that deadly enigmatic crime to the threesome of celebrity,business and politics and the fact that the crime happened in Dubai, the victim was Lebanese and accused or rather the convicted now are Egyptians ; it is a regional crime somehow !! But where is the scoop for God Sake !!

I have couple of remarks regarding yesterday coverage :

It was professional that some channels covered the trial live as much as they can in the morning.
Amr Adeeb seems to be sad because his friend is facing a tough verdict , I understand that but as TV host he should not be biased, he should not be sad as much as he can , he should it keep to himself except if he believes his friend was 100% innocent then he should tell us why he believes so !!
Hanaa El-Samry is so provocative , I do not know if it were her voice or style but I know Syad Ali ,the journalist is better interviewer than her ; I should not forget and say that El-Samry was the National TV correspondent at the Presidential Palace who used to cover president Mubarak in his trips everywhere.
Anis El-Manawy,the lawyer of El-Sokary should get some rest.

Dealing with Shock , Dealing with the victory :

Hisham was transferred to the prison hospital on Friday as he suffered from a low blood pressure , too low , I can’t blame him, it is a shock for him.

The Father of Mohsen El-Sokary spoke to the TV stations Thursday and he was angry , he attacked the public opinion and also the judicial system for hanging for two innocent men. I can’t blame or attack him , despite what we may think about his son , it is his son after all !! I must say that he seemed not okay while talking to the reporters.
The father of Suzanne Tamim is happy of course , now he will be able to sue Hisham and get millions of dollars besides the 30 millions in Switzerland banks which Hisham wanted to get back from Suzanne.
The husbands of Suzanne are happy but of course they are having a battle now to prove which one of them is legal husband of Suzanne who has the right to sue Hisham for civil compensation !!
The Shura council and NDP did not comment on the verdict because they respect judicial verdicts.
Economically the TMG stocks did not do good in the Egyptian Bourse but this was expected.
The ministry of housing commented on the verdict saying that the trial did not affect the constriction works of Madinaty , the huge project of TMG in New Cairo.
TMG is going to deliver 400 villas in Madinaty before their original time in 2010 soon !!

The Message was received :

The political message the Egyptian regime wanted to send to the world that no one was above the law in Egypt from its men was received very well. I could not believe myself when I found all those newspapers and foreign channels speaking about the matter , the news of the trial was in the front page of Huffington post last night !!

Guilty by poll :

Another thing I asked you earlier this month about your predictions regarding the trial , I did not ask about the verdict because I am not a legal expert but I asked whether you believe that Hisham and Mohsen will be found innocent or guilty , 71 readers were kindly enough to participate in the poll.

The results were as follows :