Monday, February 28, 2011

The Egyptian army in Facebook apologizes for shooting into the air

The Supreme Council of Egyptian Armed Forces apologized on his Facebook group by clashes of Saturday night against the demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square in Cairo, blamed on "involuntary tensions between the Military Police and the Sons of revolution. " In the text, collected by Monsters and Critics website, entitled "An apology, and our credit allows us to broadcast it," the military command says it "will take all necessary precautions to prevent the recurrence of such incidents in future." According to information from the protesters themselves, the army fired into the air to disperse the crowd focused on the square, the focus of the protests that led to the fall of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, to celebrate the first month since the start of the demonstrations, and knowing that they were violating the curfew remains in force in the country.

The Military Police reacted with violence after midnight, when they fired the lamps to turn off the lights and the crowd pressed in order to disperse. One protester, Ahmed Bahgat, says that this time the crowd has not been disclosed to the police authority. People then fled the square, but many people gathered on nearby streets.

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