Cairo leads to complete chaos

Egypt yesterday took one step closer to chaos which already dominates the streets of the center of the capital, totally out of control, serious clashes between hundreds of protesters and the police, despite of the authorities powerless calls for calm.

Unleashed anger last Wednesday after the tragedy of the Port Said Stadium, where 74 people were killed, not diminishes with the passage of time; on the contrary.

Radical supporters of the club Ahly, one of the teams involved in the battle of Port Said, are the spearhead of the demonstrators faced fiercely with the security forces, who respond with abundant riot gear.

The escalation of violence led to young people set fire to the headquarters of the service of estate taxes, an important administrative building situated at the junction between the streets Mohamed Mahmud and Mansur, epicentre of clashes. Wardrobes and desks at Headquarters u000aGovernment were used as makeshift barricades once the building was taken by assault.

Firing tear gas, rubber balls and pellets caused devastation among the demonstrators, four of whom died during the day, two of them in the city of Suez.

According to the Egyptian Ministry of health, more than a thousand people were injured today, of which 211 are policemen. Unlike other times, as last was the case November, the rear of the fighting, the emblematic Tahrir square, not has swung massively in support to the demonstrators.

The forefront of demonstrations is composed of hundreds of extremists angry and eager for revenge, in many cases without a defined political discourse and with some inclination toward nihilistic violence.

Flags of the Ahly in first-line of the front show that the wishes of vengeance by the more exalted are u000aobvious, and join political claims that keep the camped in Tahrir. Despite violence, Tahrir, 300 metres from the Ministry of the Interior, many jobs of food remain installed.

EL army ACEPTA QUE LA violence increases
although sporadically small violence truces were reached, the situation worsened as was made at night, which led to the military Junta to disseminate a marked tone release dramatic.

Once again, the generals put the accusing finger on "foreign parties" who pull the strings of a conspiracy to destabilize the country, not to mention who they are these parts.

"The country crosses the stage most dangerous and most important in its history, which requires that all the children of the Egyptian nation unite and facets to bury discord, and face attempts of escalation by other domestic and foreign parties," said the note.
The u000amilitary cupola found an "increase in danger".

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