The headquarters of the Egyptian Football Association were set ablaze
on Saturday, minutes after a police officers’ club was torched
following sentencing over a deadly football riot last year.
Firefighters were working to put out the fire which spread through
the building located in the same neighbourhood as the officers’ club, an
AFP reporter said.
Football officials were holding emergency talks in Cairo to discuss
upcoming fixtures around the country, state television reported.
The unrest comes hours after a court upheld death sentences for 21
defendants over a deadly football riot in Port Said last year and handed
down life sentences to five defendants, with 19 receiving lesser jail
terms and another 28 acquitted.
In Cairo, fans of Al-Ahly football club, whose members were killed in
the February 2012 stadium riot in Port Said in which 74 people died,
had warned police that they would retaliate if the defendants, including
nine policemen, were exonerated.
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