Anti-regime campaigners clash with Mursi supporters in Alexandria

Thursday 13-06-2013 01:25 PM
Anti-regime campaigners clash with Mursi supporters in Alexandria

Anti-Mursi protest near Alexandria Security Directory on February 2, 2013 - Aswat Masriya

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Confrontations between campaigners of the "Tamarod" (Rebel) movement and supporters of President Mohamed Mursi broke out on Wednesday evening in Egypt's second largest city. 

Ahmed Ibrahim, the Alexandria coordinator of the Tamarod camapaign (whose aim is to collect signatures to push for a no-confidence vote against Mursi) said that campaigners were distributing petitions when they were stopped by supporters of the president and members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its political arm (the Freedom and Justice Party). 

Ibrahim accused MB members of hurling Molotov cocktails and using rubber bullets to attack the campaigners and the residents of the neighbourhood where the MB's headquarters in Alexandria is located, which forced them to respond. 

He said that three people were injured in the violence.

Atef Abu Eleed, the FJP's press spokesman in Alexandria, said that Tamarod campaigners initiated the violence by attacking Mursi supporters and residents with rubber bullets and other weapons. 

Abu Eleed told Aswat Masriya that the campaigners attacked the headquarters of the FJP, destroying its front gate and injuring scores of people.

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