The Maspero Youth Union (MYU) held the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and police "entirely responsible" for any loss of life, property or that Copts besieged inside a church in the village of Mīt Bashār in al-Zaqāzīq, al-Sharqia governorate, or the Muslims trying to protect the church to any harm on the grounds that they are in charge of security in the country. 

There has to be serious investigations into the incidents and bringing "criminals" who perpetrated these acts to trial, said MYU, calling on everyone to stop resorting to political and 'urfī (informal) conciliatory solutions that further worsen matters.