Riots in Egypt

Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Fleishman
March 9, 2013

A police officer is carried away from the burning police club in Zamalek, an upscale area.

After a soccer game in Cairo, twenty-one soccer fans are sentenced to death, accused of starting the riot. Now, Egyptians are taking the streets and making sure their government knows how they feel about convicting twenty-one of their innocent, fellow fans. Seven police officers were acquitted, or freed from their sentence, while the rest, the civilians, still faced death row. Seventy-four fans were trampled and killed at the game in March of last year. Civilians are outraged that the actual guilty party, all of the convicted police, were found not guilty while the rest of the Egyptians were still sentenced to die. Egyptians blocked the Suez Canal by dropping big vessels into the water, causing the boats being unable to sail through. The military quickly took care of that problem, but they had another issue on their hands. The Ultras, the hardcore soccer fans, had set fire to a local police social club and blocking the firetrucks' path to the club. This stunt by the Port Said court caused a greater divide between the police and the people. Now, the civilians are even more suspicious of the corrupted police. It seems as though the unrest will continue in Egypt and will take a while for Egypt to rebuild itself as a unified country.
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