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By Jaime Ortega.
Egypt is become a bloody battlefield after the military coup that ousted Mursi of power. The “transition” is leading to bloody clashes between Islamists demanding the return of the ousted president and his detractors.
This Friday, 6 of October Bridge became a war zone where both sides of a divided Egypt increasingly been faced with stones and flares.
The first group, which began their protest in the plaza Rabea to Adauiya, where the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood had given a speech, have been moving forward with an eye on the state television. Very close to the route taken: Tahrir Square. When some of the protesters who were there, are still celebrating the fall of former president and were directed towards them and have started the crashes.
As reported by Al Jazeera, several ambulances have been around the area since the clashes began on the bridge. Meanwhile, the military has taken hours to arrive. But when they surrounded the area it seems to had dissolve protesters signs. After nearly four hours of street fighting, the military put some order.
This Friday and the expected was followed by the announcement that convulsed several demonstrations in support Mursi. At the beginning of the same, Egyptian soldiers opened fire on supporters of the former president who marched to the headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo, where supposedly a few Islamist arrested the former president.
The action has caused at least four deaths and numerous injuries. The climate of violence has claimed six more lives in the country, two of them policemen in Sinai. They’re at least 30 dead and more than 400 wounded during the clashes on Friday.
The day of pro-Islamist protests had dubbed the ‘Friday of Rejection’, after 48 hours in which the Muslim Brotherhood had been completely ‘knocked out’ and it seemed that its only hope was to show off on these series of events.
Thousands of supporters of Mursi are walking the streets, not only in Cairo but in other major Egyptian cities like Alexandria.
This has not happened in the town of Isamilia (Suez), were the army fired on the crowd that also chanted slogans in favor of former President and tried to enter the governor’s office. The protesters were removed and luckily there were no fatalities.
The army took out the Apache helicopters flying over the Egyptian capital this evening. In turn, the soldiers did not hesitate in firing tear gas at protesters. That, scattered those gathered around one of the possible fatalities.
A military spokesman insisted that the soldiers fired only tear gas and rubber bullets, but that in no case they have been using live rounds of ammunition.
The New Head of Intelligence
As violence seizes Cairo, Mansour Adli has dissolved the parliament by decree, as reported on state television.
Only the upper house remained active since last Wednesday as the army overthrew Mohamed Mursi. Mansour also appointed a new intelligence chief, replacing Mohamed Farid Ahmed Mohamed Raafat Shehata, who happens to be national security adviser.
Moreover, the ‘number two’ of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested in the neighborhood of Nasser City, east of Cairo, after the prosecutor issued a warrant for his arrest, state television reported.
Al Shater is accused of having instigated the murder of the protesters outside the headquarters of the brotherhood, as the spiritual leader of the group, Mohammed Badia, which, however, appeared in public Friday to give a speech in a protest.
