# Revolutions and property damage: Tunisia and Egypt as examples

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2112079851754852823
- Source account: [@sandrafellous\_](https://x.com/sandrafellous_)
- Source language: French
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 2026-10-20
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples) Two, uh, Tunisian women who were there with their children and were talking about it. Basically, they started talking to me, and they said, “Well, I’m obviously in favor of everything that happened, but I’m against uh, physical damage, etc.”

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=12) Then I said, “Yes, but at the same time, there has never been a revolution, no citizens’ uprising that took place peacefully.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=18) I said, “We can look at the examples of the Arab Spring.”

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=21) Uh, if you think back to that, they looted the Cairo Museum, actually, during the Arab Spring. And a lot of us supported, I think, the Arab Spring. Uh, at the square— around Tahrir Square, I think there were a huge number of stores that suffered too and that, as a result, have their

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=35) broken shop windows. And the woman, she says, “Oh yes, that’s true, we in Tunisia too.” So she’s Tunisian.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=40) We in Tunisia too, when we revolted, obviously, there was lots of looting and lots of sabotage. That’s normal, actually, it happens all the time.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=46) So those are collateral damages. And so yes, there are, small independent shopkeepers who pay the price, etc. They have insurance, you know, so there you go. Uh, but that’s not the point.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8wqYgrM6jZcw/en/revolutions-and-property-damage-tunisia-and-egypt-as-examples?t=56) We need to stay focused on the basics