Emeutes anti-coptes en Egypte – novembre 2009

Muslims burn Christian shops in Egypt’s south

Sat Nov 21, 2009

CAIRO, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt’s south threw stones at a police station on Saturday where a Christian was being held on suspicion of assault, and they later burned and looted Christian-owned shops, witnesses said.

Police fired tear gas and pursued the villagers through the streets of Farshout in Qena province and arrested 30 Muslims after the violence, security sources said.

The Christian man was being held on suspicion of indecently assaulting a Muslim female. The villagers claim she was aged 12, while security sources put her age between 18 and 30.

While relations between Muslims and its Christian minority in Egypt are generally harmonious, disputes over land, religious buildings, inter-marriage and conversion sometimes lead to violence.

An Egyptian court last Sunday sentenced two Christian men to death for killing the Muslim husband of a female relative who converted to Islam against her family’s wishes.

And in July police arrested 37 Muslims and Christians over the killing of a Muslim man and violence that followed. (Reporting by Mohamed Abdellah; Writing by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Egypte: Heurts entre musulmans et coptes

http://www.lejdd.fr

21/11/2009

Des villageois musulmans du sud de l’Egypte ont incendié et pillé samedi des boutiques appartenant à des Coptes chrétiens, ont rapporté des témoins. Ces incidents se sont produits dans la localité de Farshout, dans la province de Qena, où les forces de police ont fait usage de gaz lacrymogènes. Selon des sources proches des services de sécurité, 30 musulmans ont été interpellés. Les incidents ont éclaté après l’arrestation d’un copte dans un commissariat de police pour agression sexuelle présumée d’une musulmane – âgée de 12 ans, selon les villageois, de 18 à 30 ans d’après les sources de sécurité. Les relations entre la majorité musulmane et la minorité copte sont relativement harmonieuses en Egypte, même si des litiges touchant au foncier, aux édifices religieux, aux mariages inter-religieux et aux conversions débouchent parfois sur des violences.

Scontri islamici- cristiani in Sud Egitto

http://www.radio.rai.it

Molestata ragazzina, violenze: fermato un cristiano, musulmani assaltano una stazione di polizia

ROMA 21/11/09 –
Egitto. Tensione di nuovo alta tra musulmani e cristiani nel sud del Paese. Centinaia di islamici hanno assaltato un comando di polizia e saccheggiato ed incendiato diverse botteghe appartenenti a fedeli cristiani, a Farshout, un villaggio della provincia di Qena. L’origine delle violenze sta nelle presunte molestie fatte da un cristiano a una ragazza che secondo i rivoltosi avrebbe 12 anni La polizia ha lanciato gas lacrimogeni e arrestato 30 musulmani al termine degli scontri.