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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