Now this is what you call "taking the piss!"
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:20 pm
This is the controversial moment the motorcade of Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi drove along a giant red carpet which was laid over public roads during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb.
Images of the massive carpet sparked a wave of criticism and ridicule on social media, with a hashtag mocking the carpet trending in Arabic. A local newspaper devoted much of its front page Monday to the incident.
'How is the president asking us to tighten our belts while the 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) red carpet says otherwise?' read a headline in Al-Maqal newspaper, whose editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Eissa, is one of Egypt's most prominent TV commentators.
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