[guide.chat] football slaughterers
- From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:14:01 -0000
It seems that politics is involved in everything in Egypt these days -
especially in sport.
On Wednesday, the whole world witnessed one of, if not the ugliest and saddest
incident, in the history of sport.
Seventy-four people died and more than 1000 were injured as a result of a riot
after a football match between Al Masry of Port Said and Al Ahly of Cairo.
To some it might have looked like a tragic 'accident' similar to what happened
in Europe before at Heysel, Hillsborough, Bastia, etc, but when we learnt that
the majority of the deaths and injuries were caused by stabbings, head injuries
from blunt objects and gunshots, it became clear that there are some serious
questions that need answering.
'Ultra' fan groups started in Egypt in 2007, and although I am totally against
their aggressive and fanatical style of supporting their teams, right from the
start they have suffered a lot at the hands of the police. When there were
calls for people to go out and create a social revolution, they were among the
first to participate.
After the toppling of former president Hosni Mubarak, they continued their
protestations against the police and lately they have been putting pressure on
SCAF (Senior Counsel of Armed Forces) to hand the power to a civilian authority.
It is also worth mentioning that 'Ultras' played a major role in defending the
protestors during the ?Battle of the Camel? at Tahrir Square last year, when 11
Egyptian protestors died and hundreds were injured by Mubarak?s supporters who
were riding horses and camels.
Do the actions in Port Said sound like a message on the battle's one-year
anniversary?
Though some may say that the historical unrest between Al Ahly fans and the
local fans of Port Said is the main cause of what happened on Wednesday, I have
to say that after the revolution, the level of intolerance between various
Ultras groups decreased significantly - after all, they participated and were
all united under the same goal which ended the era of the old regime.
Even if this week's incident was influenced by fanatical causes, does it sound
logical that fans of a winning team would go mad and kill 74 people? They would
surely know the result of such actions.
Added to that, this wasn?t the first incident of a pitch invasion by fans in
Egypt after the revolution; this happened five or six times before, although on
those occasions no one was killed.
As we move on to the police force and their role in keeping order at football
matches, more questions get raised that I cannot answer myself.
If we can accept that the police could not prevent fans from invading the pitch
during or after the match, is it acceptable that they allowed some home fans to
enter the stadium with knives and guns and as such, was this violence planned?
According to witnesses in the Port Said stadium, doors that lead from the home
stands to the pitch were opened, so the fans didn?t have to climb or make any
effort to invade the pitch and cause chaos.
On the other hand, doors at the end of the tunnel that lead the away fans out
of the stadium were locked. This caused the away fans to become trapped inside
the tunnel and their stand and so, they couldn?t escape getting injured or
killed. Was this a police trap?
They also set fire to the stadium.
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