On October 6, 1981, military personnel turned their weapons against Anwar el-Sadat during the annual victory parade in Cairo. Forty-five years later, the specter of the assassination of the former Egyptian president seemed to loom yesterday over Kianja Barea, during the traditional military parade of June 26. Evidence of this was the bulletproof glass installed in front of the official box reserved for, among other dignitaries, Madagascar's number one and his Kenyan and Comorian counterparts. Despite systematic verification of weapons and total confiscation of ammunition from thousands of military parade participants, what happened in the Egyptian capital continues to haunt the minds of those responsible for presidential security. The old guard—literally and figuratively—remembers, and the younger generation has learned that a troop transport truck stopped that day in front of the presidential stand. On board were military personnel who threw grenades and opened fire on the "Raïs," who succumbed two hours after this lightning two-minute attack, leading to the rise to power of the regime's number two, Hosni Mubarak. That was October 14, 1981. An anniversary that coincides with the October 14, 2025 ruling of the High Constitutional Court that entrusted power to "the competent military authority embodied by Colonel Michaël Randrianirina." The latter, who often said people wanted to assassinate him, was visibly wearing a bulletproof vest under his jacket yesterday, whose cut recalled that of his predecessor, who also had the habit of concealing this equipment designed mainly to protect the chest, abdomen and back against gunfire, even against grenades. Anwar el-Sadat might not have been struck in the rib cage and lung had he been protected by a bulletproof vest and bulletproof glass. Even if he read the Quran more than the Bible, the "pharaoh" perhaps knew that "Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain."