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Soccer Deaths Raise Stakes for Egypt’s General-Turned-President Al Sisi

Links zum Thema:
Media trade blame over Egypt football stampede → BBC News
Egypt football: Fans tell of stadium crush horror → BBC News
»Die nächste Schlacht wird viel gewaltsamer«: Interview mit Philip Rizk und »Die Ordnung herrscht in Kairo«  → footballuprising

Von James Dorsey

The death of at least 40 militant, highly politicized, and street battle-hardened Egyptian soccer fans in clashes with security forces raises the stakes for general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s efforts to suppress political dissent.

The incident is one of the worst in Egyptian sporting history and the latest in a number of mass killings involving security forces since Mr. Al Sisi overthrew of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first and only democratically elected president, in a military coup in 2013.

It resembled in some ways a politically loaded soccer brawl in Port Said three years ago in which 74 militant fans or ultras died and is likely to re-energize the ultras, one of Egypt’s largest social movements mostly organized in rival groups supporting a specific soccer team. Ultras played a key role in the toppling in 2011 of President Hosni Mubarak, subsequent protests against his military successors as well as Mr. Morsi, a member of the since outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, and anti-government demonstrations against the rise of Mr. Al Sisi.

Like in Port Said, many of the fans in Cairo died of suffocation in a stampede. The stampede occurred when police used tear gas to stop members of the Ultras White Knights (UWK) from forcing their way into Cairo’s Air Defence Stadium where their storied Cairo team Al Zamalek SC was playing a Premier League match against rival Engineering for the Petroleum and Process Industries (ENPPI).

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Dozens dead after police fire on Egyptian football supporters

Von Patrick Kingsley

Zamelek supporters clash with police in Cairo in country’s third football disaster since 2011 revolution


Clouds of teargas billow into the night sky outside a Cairo football stadium on Sunday

Dozens of Egyptian football fans were killed on Sunday evening after police fired teargas and shotgun pellets on supporters queueing to enter a Cairo stadium, in the latest spasm of state-led violence that has characterised much of Egypt’s post-revolutionary history.

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Yellow card for Al-Sisi?

Von Amr Khalifa

Over thirty Egyptians did not return home last night and Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of Interior, shoulders responsibility. You can be certain the honorable minister is not the only party culpable in the second disaster of its kind to strike Egyptian football in the last three years, 74 lives having been extinguished in Port Said previously.

The problems of Egypt certainly cannot be placed on the shoulders of one person and if Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is to lead by example, he must both shoulder the blame and accept Ibrahim’s resignation or face a rising tide of anger. The harm done to the families of the dead is immeasurable, but the political damage done to the Al-Sisi regime in the wake of this tragedy, if not handled correctly, maybe irreversible.

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Fußball-Krawalle in Kairo. 22 Tote vor dem Anpfiff

Als Fans versuchen, ohne Tickets in ein Stadion zu gelangen, eskaliert die Situation. Die Polizei schießt mit Tränengas und Schrot. Das Spiel findet trotzdem statt.

KAIRO afp | Bei Zusammenstößen zwischen Fußballfans und der Polizei sind in der ägyptischen Hauptstadt Kairo nach offiziellen Angaben 22 Menschen getötet worden. Außerdem habe es bei den Krawallen am Sonntag mindestens 25 Verletzte gegeben, teilte die Staatsanwaltschaft mit. Wegen des Vorfalls setzte die Regierung die Spiele der ersten Liga um die ägyptische Meisterschaft auf unbestimmte Zeit aus.

Die Staatsanwaltschaft erklärte in ihrer Mitteilung, sie habe eine Untersuchung der Krawalle angeordnet, bei denen drei Polizeiwagen in Brand gesteckt worden seien. Die Polizei habe Tränengas eingesetzt und mit Schrot geschossen, während Fußballfans Feuerwerkkörper abgebrannt hätten, berichteten Polizei und Augenzeugen.

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Year 01-Videocollective: Back to Tuzla

One year ago, on the 5th of February, the biggest social movement since the 1992-95 war started in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It began in solidarity with the workers of privatized factories in Tuzla who were attacked by the police as they were protesting to get their unpaid wages. On the 7th of February, the movement had spread to the whole of Bosnia and several government buildings were in flames. Hundreds of people started to organise in plenums in more than 20 towns. Three months after, the movement had lost a lot of its momentum and the most severe floods since decades hit the country.
In October 2014, a few days after the general elections, we interviewed several workers in Tuzla about their current situation.
One year after the revolt, did the living conditions of the workers of Tuzla improve in any way?

Quelle: Year 01-Videocollective, 07. Februar 2015

Egypt: Al Ahly supporters honored their brothers after the Port Said massacre.

Exactly 3 years after the killing of 74 football supporters in Egypt took place, Al Ahly fans gathered in their training ground to honor their brothers after the Port Said massacre.

One year ago they also gathered in this ground, that time they displayed many different card displays of the victims. This year Al Ahly supporters displayed banners and used pyrotechnics to honor their friends.

The match Al Masry vs Al Ahly in 2012 is defiantly one of the worst incidents in the football history.

Quelle: ultras-tifo.net, 04. Februar 2015

Hooligans kommen in Manndeckung

Links zum Thema:
Meldepflicht für Hooligans? → WDR
Hooligans, Rocker, Terroristen Auf in den Kampf… → Tagesspiegel
Update 07.02.2015 Aufruhr unter Hooligans → Frankfurter Rundschau

Von Wilfried Goebels

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NRW nimmt Fußball-Schläger ab sofort „in Manndeckung“. Als erstes Bundesland bündeln Polizei und Justiz die Ermittlungen künftig am Wohnort der Intensivtäter – unabhängig davon, in welcher Stadt sie gewalttätig geworden sind. Dieses „täterorientierte Konzept“ soll bald auch bundesweit angewendet werden. Wiederholungstäter sollen so schneller erkannt und besser verfolgt werden können. Nach Angaben von NRW-Innenminister Ralf Jäger (SPD) gibt es in NRW 150 Intensivtäter rund um die Stadien.

Spezialisierte Polizeiermittler, Staatsanwälte und Richter sollen gefährliche Rädelsführer frühzeitig und konsequent dingfest machen können, weil sie bundesweit die gesamte kriminelle Vorgeschichte der Randalierer auf dem Schirm haben. Weil dann nicht nur Verurteilungen, sondern auch bereits laufende Verfahren erfasst sind, ergibt sich ein umfassendes Täterbild. Damit werde ein höheres Strafmaß wahrscheinlicher, sagte Jäger.

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