Egypt’s vice-president Mohamed ElBaradei said on Tuesday that the justice minister’s first priority must be to form a judicial committee to investigate the Republican Guard events.
Violent confrontations between supporters of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and security forces by the Republican Guard's Club about two weeks ago left at least 50 people killed.
He added in a Twitter post that he also expects the prosecutor-general to refer the perpetrators in the Mansoura events, which left three dead over the weekend, to justice.
“Transitional justice and national reconciliation based on inclusiveness are [the] only option. The sooner we realize this the more lives are saved,” the Nobel Laureate and former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
He added that “violence does not heal wounds, but opens new ones.”
ElBaradei is the vice-president of interim President Adli Mansour who was sworn into office after Egypt’s army ousted Mursi in response to mass demonstrations.
