What has really happened Sunday at the stadium entrance of Cairo's Air Force?
The authorities speak of a stampede caused by fans came without tickets. Version contested by witnesses who accuse the police of having caused the stampede by firing tear gas on a crowd pressed behind metal barriers.
The official death toll reported 19 dead. Some medical sources put the figure of 40 deaths.
Ayman Younis is a former player of Zamalek, the club whose supporters died Sunday. He deplored the way in which young supporters are handled. "These kids are willing to die for the clubs, he said. But this is absurd: no one dies for a football club! And yet some of these young, driven by poverty and greed, are ready to become ultras. "
The ultras groups in Egypt have often been in the forefront in recent years in political demonstrations, clashing regularly with police.
Ahmed Salem lost his neighbor Emad Islam in the tragedy of Sunday. "Islam was studying to become an engineer. He went to the stage and died from tear gas. Some of his friends were wounded by gunfire buckshot. "
This drama comes three years the Port Said.
Supporters of two rival clubs clashed amid political antagonism. The police had let him. 74 people were killed.
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