Emeute au Caire – 28 janvier 2011

Egyptian military deploys in Cairo under curfew

newsday.com

January 28, 2011
By The Associated Press HADEEL AL-SHALCHI (Associated Press), MAGGIE MICHAEL (Associated Press)

(AP) — Egypt’s military deployed on the streets of Cairo to enforce a nighttime curfew as the sun set Friday on a day of rioting and chaos that amounted to the biggest challenge ever to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year regime.

Flames rose up across a number of cities from burning tires and police cars. Even the ruling party headquarters in Cairo was ablaze in the outpouring…

Égypte: siège du parti au pouvoir en feu

AFP

28/01/2011

Les manifestants ont mis le feu au siège du Parti national démocrate (PND) au pouvoir en Egypte vendredi au Caire, au quatrième jour de manifestations sans précédent contre le régime du président Hosni Moubarak, a indiqué la télévision d’Etat.

Le bâtiment, qui donne sur le Nil, est pris par les flammes, selon des images retransmises en direct par la télévision.

Le président Moubarak a décrété un couvre-feu de 18h à 7h à partir d’aujourd’hui et jusqu’à nouvel ordre dans les villes du Caire, Alexandrie et Suez, villes qui ont connu des manifestations particulièrement violentes vendredi.

One killed in Cairo, protestors confront security forces

sify.com

2011-01-28

Cairo, Jan 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) At least one protestor was killed and dozens of others were injured in Cairo Friday, as a large number of protestors took to the streets across Egypt calling for President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation.

Clashes with police erupted outside a mosque in Cairo with protestors throwing stones and dirt and holding up posters saying ‘No to dictatorship’.

Egyptian opposition leader and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei was confined to an area in central Cairo by the police, RIA Novosti reported Al Jazeera as stating.

Earlier reports suggested he was arrested.

Demonstrations were also staged in Suez, a seaport town, and Alexandria, second-largest city of Egypt.

Alexandria witnessed violence, as security forces used tear gas shells at the protestors running towards the city’s central square, and water cannons were being brought in by security forces for use on protestors, said a media report Friday.

Around a thousand protestors were out on the streets, as youths hurled rocks through the black cloud of tear gas towards police. Read more…