In demonstrations on the fourth anniversary of the popular uprising in Egypt, at least 12 people have been killed. To the north of Cairo, two protesters were killed in clashes with the police, such as the Ministry of Health and the police rushed mitt. Six policemen were injured after the protestors had shot at the security forces with buckshot. In addition, in the east of Cairo nine people were killed in protests by Islamists such as the security forces rushed mitt.
Sealed off Tahrir Square
Also in Alexandria an Islamist was shot during a demonstration. According to official figures, the armed with an automatic rifle man member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Another bewaffentes member had been arrested. The Brotherhood is classified as a terrorist organization since the fall of the Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in Summer 2013. Police also foiled claims to a stop in the northern Egyptian Buhaira. The extremists have tried to place a bomb on a power pole.
On the main streets in Cairo were policemen with machine guns guard. Tahrir Square was cordoned off by armored military vehicles. Only a few dozen supporters of President al-Sisi gathered in the square. They held Egyptian flags up and shouted "Long live Egypt".
Young protester shot
On Saturday evening, a protester was killed in a funeral march for the victims of the revolution in Cairo near Tahrir Square. The 32-year-old Shaima Al-Sabagh had been shot with buckshot, activists told a news conference. Police had fired the shots, to dissolve the march by force. The Interior Ministry, however, did not further defined "Armed" responsible. The Cairo prosecutor promised to ask the officers involved in the resolution of the funeral march. According to local media reports, hundreds of people gathered for the funeral of Al-Sabaghs in her native city of Alexandria.
Egypt does not come to rest
The revolution in Egypt began on 25 January 2011 and led to the overthrow of longtime leaders Hosni Mubarak a few weeks later. The North African country since then is not to rest. The mid-2012 first freely elected president of Egypt, the Islamist Mohammed Mursi was overthrown after a year in office by the military, which then took power.
Since then, the regime goes with full force against supporters of the Mursi related Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. In addition, the authorities are increasingly resorting to by left and secular opposition, although the fall Mursi approved of, but also the successor Abdel Fattah al-Sisi criticize. The security forces had warned, "determined" to proceed to the anniversary against every form of protest.
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