A 22-year-old suicide bomber was behind Sunday’s massacre at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral complex, Egypt’s President said on Monday.<br /><br /> Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, attending a state funeral for the 24 victims, said Mahmoud Shafik Mohamed Mostafa was responsible for the carnage.<br /><br /> No-one has claimed responsibility but ISIL supporters have been celebrating on social media.<br /><br /> “What is happening is frustration from their side,” he told mourners.<br /><br /> “They have been trying to break us for the last three years but they can’t – hitting our economy and with a wave of terrorist acts but they know that nothing will break us.”<br /><br /> He said three men and a woman had been detained over the attack and that two more people were being sought.<br /><br /> While dismissing accusations of a security failure, Sisi called for tighter anti-terrorism laws.<br /><br /> Copts have been targeted repeatedly by Islamist militants but Sunday’s attack, in which mainly women and children were killed, was the deadliest on Egypt’s Christian minority in years. <br /><br /> Human Rights Watch is urging better protection for Egypt’s Christians.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> After much neglect, Egypt should step up protection for Coptic Christians. Bombing them is attack on all Egyptians. https://t.co/HRAdEk2ga2 pic.twitter.com/2U37rdPkcf— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) 12 décembre 2016<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Sisi is fighting battles on several fronts. His economic reforms have angered the poor, a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood has seen thousands jailed and an insurgency rages in Northern Sinai, led by ISIL’s Egyptian branch.<br /><br /> Exiled Muslim Brotherhood officials and local militant groups have joined the international community in condemning the attack. Only ISIL supporters online rejoiced.<br />
