the front row of the church which is 100 kilometers north of cairo. and of course because it is palm sunday, the church was absolutely jam-packed. and of course as is often the case in egypt, the initial death toll rises dramatically as the situation becomes clearer. what happened and i wanted to add something to what he was saying before. when you look egypt has a huge number of problems. but one of those problems is security service. which is a state unto itself. and the case of the church bombing in december, the young man who is believed did it, his story is symptomatic of the situation in egypt. he apparently was arrested for participating in a demonstration in his hometown which is to the west of the nile delta. he was taken to prison, brutally
or part of the muslim brotherhood are forces that are absolutely opposed to the el sisi government. the wegs sst sees the el sisi government as a force for stanlt. the problem is they re sitting on a pressure cooker and that pressure cooker is about to explode. it s very difficult for any government, any central government in cairo, to really control the entire population of some 90 million people in a way that allows for some views, some extremist views to be expressed but expressed in a nonviolent plar manner. and this is the kind of manifestation that you see, this attack another church in tanta. absolutely. and western countries who see abdel fattah el sisi as a force for stability, of course inside egypt the viewed is quite different depending on who you speak with, that they have gone back to state control over media, over freedom of expression, over police and
today, not just sunday, palm sunday as we would. the last attack in december on a chapel adjoining an important church, cathedral in cairo, also happening on a sunday. this is maximum terror, maximum impact against the christian community in egypt. and we were discussing as well, ben, there is a lot of frustration among them now, that they re not being protected adequately enough, that they know they are a target and yet the bomb attacks keep happening. reporter: and i think part of the problem is that the security provided to the christians, to their churches, to their community centers, simply is inadequate. you ve seen it, i ve seen it, that the security forces that are assigned to this job tend to be substandard. they re poorly paid, poorly trained conscripts who simply don t have the wherewithal to provide the necessary protection. egyptian intelligence at times can be very good, but clearly
really waging economic warfare against the administration of abdel fattah el sisi who toppled morsi. the country is deeply polarized. there is a low level insurgency in northern sinai and it has spread to other parts of egypt, cairo, alexandria, tanta. and what we need also to stress, that even though the security services in egypt have not raeld proved really proved to be ver effective, it is extremely difficult to protect every religious place in egypt. think of how easy it is to place a bomb in a cairo cathedral or in tanta in a church can. think how easy it is to carry out a suicide bombing and the attacks against the copsan. think how easy it is to carry out a suicide bombing and the attacks against the copsn. think how easy it is to carry out a suicide bombing and the attacks against the cops. think how easy it is to carry out a suicide bombing and the attacks against the cops alexandria, cairo, tanta, they want to sow sectarian tensions
and employment among the semi educated youth is about 30%. and some would say 40%. the country is deeply polarized. you have thousands activists and religious activists who are in prison. you have a potent insurgency in northern sinai that is waging economic warfare. remember what has happened to the russian airplane that was basically destroyed in sinai, the russian tourism industry, tourists have not come back. the country is deeply polarized. the security forces got seem to be able to secure the country. the attacks against the coptic community even though it s a small community, but they exacerbate the social and political problems. and that s why what we need to understand, these attacks against the cops whether in december in cairo, 25 cops were killed and 49 injured, and now my take and i hope i m wrong, i think you will see more than 15 people killed given the fact that hundreds of people basically on on this particular