Sonia Dridi was surrounded while filming in the square, with the mob closing in on her as she was reporting.
While people in the square expressed unhappiness with David Cameron's victory, the Conservatives in power could well turn out to be a boon for the SNP, driving even more voters into the SNP and independence camp.
CB Richard Ellis, a property consultancy, says that rents in the area have risen by about 12% over the past 12 months, while those in the square mile of the old City financial district increased at an even faster pace.But it is not just a shortage of space that is driving up the prices of office towers and shopping malls.
While many in the square were chanting "Morsi must go," Mafouz was more moderate in his demands.
While the throngs in the square chanted "Peace!
But while unity reappeared in the square, where Coptic Christians once again stood guard as their Muslim compatriots bowed to pray, the political class remained deeply polarized over what sort of civilian government might succeed the military.
A Facebook group dedicated to its removal was established, vulgar comments flooded onto web forums and a 41-year-old MP, Stanislaw Pieta from the opposition Law and Justice Party, said that the "hideous rainbow had hurt the feelings of believers".Back at Plac Zbawiciela, elderly mass-goers swell the large Church of the Holiest Saviour while others socialise in the square's lively cafés.
All the while, the square peg in Knick blue waited patiently until Coach Jeff Van Gundy could find a purpose for him.
While the other statues in the square celebrate power, this work celebrates growing up.
The morning after the tear-gassing, I bumped into Ramy Essam, a twenty-four-year-old engineering student and musician who had become famous in February for his popular revolutionary songs and then, in March, for a brutal beating he received from military officers, who had seized him while he was protesting in the square.
