Emeute au stade du Caire – 6 septembre 2011

Dozens of Egypt police injured in football clash

AFP

6 09 2011

CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian football fans clashed with police in a Cairo stadium late Tuesday, injuring nearly 80 people, after they chanted slogans against ousted president Hosni Mubarak and torched dozens of cars.

The trouble started when supporters of the Al-Ahly football club chanted slogans against Mubarak and former interior minister Habib al-Adli, both on trial for murder, and threw bottles at police, police and witnesses said.

The clashes moved to a nearby street, police said, where the fans wounded 72 policemen and torched more than a dozen cars, including four police vehicles.

Seven civilians were wounded and police arrested 12 protesters, they added. Read more…