Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak died on Tuesday at the age of 91 at the Cairo Military Hospital. Back in pictures on the reign of the one who ruled Egypt with an iron fist from 1981 to 2011, before being forced to leave power after 18 days of an unprecedented revolt against his regime.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, 91, died Tuesday, February 25, at the Galaa military hospital in Cairo. In power from 1981 to 2011, the former raïs who enjoyed a reputation as “moderate” in the Arab world, will be driven from power in favor of the “Nile Revolution”, before being brought to justice, then imprisoned and finally acquitted in 2017.
Undated photo of Hosni Mubarak, then a young lieutenant in the Egyptian Air Force, taken before the removal of King Farouk in 1952. © AFP
Born on May 4, 1928, in the Nile Delta region, and coming from a modest background, Hosni Mubarak considered from a very young age to devote his life to the army. A graduate of the Air Force Academy in 1950, he was sent to the Soviet Union for various training courses, then appointed to command posts.
In 1972, he was appointed commander of the Egyptian Air Force and played an active role during the Yom Kippur War against Israel. Considered a war hero, he was promoted to general, then parachuted by President Anouar al-Sadat to the Vice-Presidency of the Republic in 1975. A few days after the assassination of Sadat by Islamists during a military ceremony at Cairo, October 6, 1981, Hosni Mubarak, who escaped the shooting that day, was unanimously elected president by the People’s Assembly. At 53, he began a long reign at the top of the state.
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