Egyptians returning from Tunisia recount their experience

Egyptians describe the scenes they witnessed during days of volatility and change in Tunisia and reveal how they received no help from the Egyptian embassy

Egyptians returning home from Tunisia on Monday described to Ahram Online the present situation in the country:
"Gunshots can still be heard every night."
"The villas and palaces formerly occupied by the rich of the ex-ruling regime have been taken over and robbed."
"The army is working together with hundreds of youth to bring back stability to the country while some of the old regime's guards are still resisting."
While expressing how "happy" they were for Tunisians who had finally removed their authoritarian regime, they admitted to fearing the ensuing chaos, preferring to return home.
Mostafa Shawqy, a doctor, says "we lived very hard days, nothing like I have ever experienced before. The strange thing was that everything happened suddenly, without any build up. I witnessed with my own eyes thousands of people going out to demonstrate and the police resisting by firing live ammunition without any sympathy to its people. This made the people more determined to resist."
Mohamed Salama, an engineer, was visiting a relative in Tunisia and said "after the demonstrations, events escalated very quickly as the army took to the streets following instructions from Ben Ali. This, however, was not in his benefit because the army sympathized with its people and together they fought the oppressive regime.”
“Coming back home was not a piece of cake either,” reveals Ibrahim Zaghloul. “The Tunisian airport has also been in a state of chaos and all its activities have come to a halt. Even when the airport reopened, our flight arrived three days later ... despite the fact that airplanes arrive to transport people from other nationalities."
As for the level of assistance they received from their government's representatives, Zaghloul was withering in his assessment. "We were in contact with the head of the Egyptian community in Tunisia who stayed in contact with the Egyptian ambassador there but we did not see the ambassador until our flight arrived and we had already spent days in the airport without enough food."