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Quelle: Kosmoprolet, 04. April 2015
Von Adham Youssef
As Egyptian football league continues, Ultras groups still face crackdown by government
A Giza Criminal Court acquitted Sunday eight defendants of the hardcore Zamalek SC fan group Ultras White Knights (UWK) of charges of throwing acid on the club’s president.
One member, however, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
The court refused the prosecution’s appeal and acquitted the defendants, the group lawyer Tarek Al-Awady told Daily News Egypt Monday.
Al-Awady said that Said Moshagheb, a leading figure in UWK movement, was acquitted by the court from charges against him.
“Moshagheb was not present in the trial session. Until this moment we only know he is in the custody of the police, and haven’t personally met him,” Al-Awady added.
With the Muslim Brotherhood in disarray, a new generation takes to the streets in Egypt.
Since the popularly backed military takeover in 2013, Egypt’s new government has systematically rounded up its adversaries and placed them behind bars: bloggers, youth movement leaders, religious leaders, journalists. But one opposition group continues to slip through the government’s nets. Its members call themselves the Ultras Nahdawy. They’re secretive, loosely organized, and rapidly growing in number.
Egypt is famous for its Ultras: massive groups of hardcore soccer fans that are often found at the center of a riot. But the Nahdawy are Ultras of a different sort. Rather than uniting around their fanatic love for a soccer team, they are united in their support for deposed president Mohamed Morsi and a desire to return him and the Muslim Brotherhood to power. “The Ultras Nahdawy are the first political Ultras group in the Middle East,” founding member Mohammed Faisal said.
Continue reading “An Underground Army Challenges President Sisi”
Von Adham Youssef
Incident left 20 hardcore Zamalek UWK fans dead
The first trial session of 16 defendants accused of rioting and violence leading to the death of 20 football fans is to be held on 18 April.
The accused allegedly belong to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and the Zamalek Ultras White Knights (UWK) fan base.
The deaths took place before the match as fans were attempting to enter the Air Defence Stadium, before the 8 February Zamalek SC and ENPPI football match.
Last Wednesday, Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat claimed that Muslim Brotherhood members provided the UWK with money and explosive materials to commit violence and riots, which lead to the killings.
Continue reading “Air Defence Stadium trial to start 18 April”
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Von ACAB – Freundeskreis
Um sowohl die vorangehenden, als auch die folgenden Ausführungen nicht falsch zu verstehen, möchte ich meinen Standpunkt kurz darstellen. Es ist gut, dass sich viele junge Menschen für das Leben als Ultrà entschieden haben. Die Ultràbewegung hat sich zu einer großen, ausdifferenzierten Jugendkultur entwickelt, die Woche für Woche grandiose Dinge auf die Beine stellt. Es passiert unglaublich viel in den einzelnen Städten, Stadien und Szenen. Die Ultràkultur ist kein gesellschaftliches Randphänomen mehr sondern ist mittlerweile auch der Mitte der Gesellschaft bekannt. Den größten Verdienst, den ich der Ultràkultur attestieren möchte, ist jedoch der, dass über die Jahre zehntausende junger Menschen interessante, abenteuerliche und augenöffnende Erfahrungen machen konnten, die sie ansonsten nie gehabt hätten. Das finde ich absolut wichtig und erhaltenswert. Trotzdem möchte ich versuchen einige selbstkritische und heikle Fragen aufzuwerfen, auf die jeder Ultrà selbst seine Antwort finden muss.
Von James M. Dorsey
An Egyptian Cabinet decision to end the suspension of professional soccer in late March but reinstitute the ban on spectators attending matches could spark renewed clashes between militant fans and security forces. The decision against the backdrop of mounting evidence that Egyptian general-turned-President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has no apparent intention of easing repression implicitly acknowledges the role of fans in continued widespread opposition to his rule.
Professional soccer was suspended in early February after some 20 members of Ultras White Knights (UWK), the militant support group of Al Zamalek SC, were killed in a stampede at a Cairo stadium. The incident was likely the result of supporters seeking to gain access to a match in the absence of available tickets rather than a deliberate and planned assault by security forces. UWK is nevertheless convinced that it was targeted by security forces much like militant supports of Zamalek arch rival Al Ahli were three years ago.
Soccer has been suspended for much of the last four years since mass anti-government protests erupted in 2011 that forced President Hosni Mubarak from office. Spectators have been banned from matches that were played since 74 supporters of Al Ahli were killed in 2012 in a politically loaded brawl in Port Said. The stampede in Cairo was after Port Said, the worst sporting incident in recent Egyptian sporting history.
Continue reading “Egyptian spectator ban: flashpoint for conflict and statement of weakness”
Quelle: imago
Kalkulierte Geisterspiele: Wie spiegel online berichtet, soll die komplette Rückrunde der “Egyptian Premier League” ohne Zuschauer ausgetragen werden. Grund dafür sind die schweren Krawalle Anfang Februar beim Spiel zwischen Zamalek SC und ENPPI Club, bei denen 19 Menschen ums Leben gekommen waren.
Nach diesem Vorfall war eine Trauerphase von 40 Tagen vereinbart worden, der Spielbetrieb kann somit erst Ende März wieder aufgenommen werden. Dann wollen Verband und Innenministerium gemeinsam die Rückrunde organisieren, allerdings ohne Zuschauer. Diese Maßnahme hat eine Vorgeschichte: Bereits 2012 war es zu einem vorübergehenden Zuschauerausschluss gekommen, nach schweren Ausschreitungen in Port Said, bei denen 74 Menschen starben.
Quelle: fanzeit, 25. Februar 2015
FC Bayern – Hamburger SV am 14. Februar 2015
Von James M. Dorsey
A stampede at a Cairo stadium earlier this month, much like a politically-loaded soccer brawl in the Suez Canal city of Port Said three years ago, is shining a spotlight on Egypt’s unreformed, unabashedly violent, and politically powerful police and security forces amid confusion over what precisely happened and how many fans died.
Amid security forces holding fans and fans holding police responsible and conflicting assertions of the number of people who died in the incident one thing stands out: the deep-seated distrust and animosity between significant segments of the Egyptian public and an unreformed security force that was long the hated symbol of the regime of toppled President Hosni Mubarak; played a key role in persuading the military in 2013 to overthrow Egypt’s first and only democratic elected president; and has since left a bloody of brutal violence as evidenced by the deaths of some 1,400 anti-government protesters in the last 19 months.
Continue reading “Soccer deaths renews spotlight on Egypt’s notorious security forces”
Von Patrick Kingsley
Sitting outside Cairo’s main mortuary on Sunday night, as the bodies of dead football fans were carried in and out for their autopsies, Saad Abdelhamid thinks he knows why they have died. “The massacre that took place today was revenge on those who took part in the revolution,” says the 27-year-old salesman.
“Witness this,” shouts another mourner, raising his bloodied hands. “Witness what our government is doing to our kids.”
To outsiders, the death of at least 22 fans of Zamalek SC in a stampede outside a stadium on Sunday evening might appear to be simply a footballing tragedy. To the police, what happened was the fault of fans trying to break into the ground.
But the circumstances that prompted the stampede – police fired teargas and shotgun pellets into the midst of thousands of fans confined in a narrow passage lined with barbed wire – has led traumatised survivors like Abdelhamid to claim their friends were targeted on purpose. And for political reasons.
Continue reading “Death of Zamalek fans in riot stirs political conspiracies in Egypt”