Affrontement au Caire. Mort d’un adolescent – 4 juillet 2011

Teenager killed in Cairo clashes with police

AFP

5 07 2011

CAIRO — A teenager was killed in clashes with police in the Egyptian capital as families stormed a police station to free detainees held on drugs charges, a security official told AFP on Tuesday.

Police and soldiers arrested around 50 people from the shanty town of Ezbet Abu Qarn in a drugs raid on Sunday, the official said.

On Monday, angry families stormed the station where the suspects were being held, triggering clashes with security forces in which an 18-year-old boy was killed. The army intervened to restore calm, the official said.

It was not immediately clear how the boy was killed.

The incident coincided with other clashes on Monday night as a court bailed seven police officers accused of killing protesters during the anti-regime uprising which ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February.

Security services said family members of victims attacked the courthouse on the outskirts of Cairo, before blocking traffic on a highway to Suez where the killings took place. Read more…