Cairo Criminal Court will resume Thursday the trial of 45 Muslim Brotherhood (MB) affiliates over charges of detonating power plants, Al-Bawaba News reported. The now outlawed MB group has formed terrorist cells tasked with exploding power plants and other vital institutions across the country, judicial sources told Al-Bawaba. The defendants admitted to having maps of electric pylons nationwide leaked through MB elements in the Energy Control National Center, the sources added. Meanwhile, the same court, convened at the Police Academy in Torah, will resume Thursday the trial of 104 MB affiliates over violence-related charges committed at Bulak Abul Ella district, downtown Cairo, following the dispersal of Rabia and El-Nahda sit-ins August 2013. The defendants face charges of joining an illegal group, murder, premeditated murder, sabotaging public and private properties and illegally possessing weapons and explosives, judicial sources said. Since the former president Mohamed Morsi was ousted July 2013, a series of terrorist attacks against vital institutions and police and military personnel, particularly in the restive Sinai Peninsula, eastern Egypt, have been committed.
