For nearly three hours, the outgunned police survivors barricaded themselves inside a ground-floor apartment, radioing for reinforcements. "It was like a war zone," a local fruit vendor told a foreign news agency (speaking on condition of anonymity). "We heard explosions, then heavy machine guns. The police were screaming for help."
Set in 1940s Alexandria under King Farouk's reign, the story begins when British soldiers assault a young Egyptian woman in the Karmouz neighborhood.
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According to eyewitness accounts (which were heavily censored in state media but leaked via human rights groups), the militants had been tipped off. As the police entered the ground floor, a sudden, deafening barrage of automatic rifle fire erupted not from inside the building, but from the rooftops and a connecting mosque overlooking the courtyard.
The spark that would ignite the Karmouz War came in the form of a tip. Security sources later claimed that informants had identified a hideout used by a cell of the —a militant group believed to be an offshoot of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Hasm had claimed several high-profile assassinations and drive-by shootings across Egypt since 2016. The target in Karmouz: a four-story building housing alleged militants and a substantial cache of weapons. For nearly three hours, the outgunned police survivors
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Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s under British colonial rule. Key Cast: The police were screaming for help
The police officer, identified as Islam R., was reportedly injured during the confrontation. In a show of force that many viewed as an overreaction, the police mobilized heavily to arrest the young man responsible. The standoff required the deployment of special forces and lasted for hours, resulting in a dramatic siege of the neighborhood.
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The timeline of the "war" traces back to a dispute that escalated far beyond the norm. In mid-2018, a heated argument broke out between a police officer and a local youth. The exact details of the provocation remain debated in legal circles, but the outcome was undeniable: the situation spiraled into a violent altercation.