Seven years after he was inaugurated as president of Egypt following his victory in the country’s first free presidential election in decades, Mohammed Morsi died on Monday as he was about to testify in court in Cairo.

The circumstances of his death are still not completely clear, and the hospital’s announcement that the 67-year-old Morsi suffered a heart attack was met with doubt and suspicion by his supporters and those loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Large numbers of police deployed in the streets of the capital out of fear that large-scale protests would break out, including not only supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, but also other opponents of President Abdel Fattah Sissi, Egyptian media reported on Monday.

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