The former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was suddenly hospitalized Tuesday in a station of the Red Sea on the day, it was to be summoned for questioning by prosecutors on allegations of corruption and abuse of powerEgyptian responsible said.
The Egypt Attorney General had issued a subpoena for the 82-year-old Mubarak Monday to be questioned on allegations of corruption of his three-year reign and violence against the demonstrators in the 18-day uprising that forced Office.
Citing State media, the BBC reported that Mubarak was in intensive care after suffering a heart attack. The Director of the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, where Mubarak was admitted, said that his condition was "almost stable", said the public broadcaster.
Dozens of protesters picketed at the hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, denouncing the President and carrying a sign reading, "here's the butcher". They had with Mubarak supporters in a massive security presence.
Two officials of the Egyptian security said that Mubarak arrives under the protection of the heavy police at the main hospital. Two doctors at the hospital said that he came out of his Mercedes armoured, surrounded by security and was admitted to the presidential suite in the building in the shape of pyramid.
Officials and doctors spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media. Egyptian State TV confirmed later hospitalization.
Mubarak was forced to resign and submit to the army, on February 11 after the unprecedented mass protests asked his departure.
The protest movement which filed that Mubarak is now pushing for him to be brought to justice for what they say is decades of abuse. Since Friday, hundreds have reoccupied parts of the Tahrir square in downtown Cairo. The demonstrators had criticized the army to be too close to the former regime and not quickly Mubarak judging.
On Tuesday, however, a fight erupted when some residents tried to break the sit-in of four days, removal of barbed wire and barricades. The army then moved in and took control of the place and sealed off the once-grassy roundabout that had been the centre of many events.
SANAA Seif, an aged 17 years on the scene, said that she had seen the army remove by force of people. The State Egyptian news agency reported that the military police had arrested a number of "thugs outlaw" instead.
Mubarak has been suffering for a number of ailments and underwent surgery of the gallbladder in Germany in March last year.
He kept a profile down since he was ousted, living at his compound in Sharm el-Sheikh. It is forbidden to travel, and its assets were frozen. Many of his senior aides have already been questioned or detained pending investigations.
On Sunday, Mubarak defended in a pre-recorded message, saying: he had not abused his authority and investigators were invited to check on its assets.
It was his first address to the people, in the two months since he resigned. Shortly after, the Attorney General has issued a subpoena for Mubarak to appear for questioning.
Decide on the site of the interrogation was a dilemma for the authorities, who wanted to give the ailing President a degree of confidentiality and security.
Mubarak's two sons are also due to appear before investigators and would have been accompanied by their father to the hospital.
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