Breadth Copts demonstrations and slogans against Mubarak and Interior Minister and Pope Shenouda demands that the state of justice in the cause of building churches expanded demonstrations of angry Copts in Egypt yesterday to protest the massacre of Alexandria, which killed 23 people, and spread to several provinces across the country.
The demonstrations included a violent confrontations with police forces resulted in the occurrence of many of the wounded.
Sources in the Directorate of Health in Alexandria, Egypt on Tuesday, the number of victims of the bombing of a Coptic church in the city the first day of the new year has risen to 23 dead after the death of the injured.
The source said a church in Alexandria that the deceased named Sabri Fawzi Wissa (43 years) and was working pharmacists.
This was announced in the Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, the monitoring of the amount of one million Egyptian pounds in cash reward for information leading security agencies to arrest the perpetrators or masterminds of accident Saints Church in Alexandria.
Investigators said the attack could have been more bloody if the bomber had managed to enter the church, as intended, probably, the time of Mass New Year.
Investigators said Tuesday that the offender had wanted to enter the church near the end of the Mass, but that the presence of police in front of the door prevented it.
In the end, the bomber detonated himself with a belt, contains between 10 to 15 kg of explosive materials, including nails and ball bearings, shortly after midnight, with the start of worshipers left the church.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing, but the system sees 'fingers of Foreign Affairs' behind this attack, even if the first elements of the investigation say the homemade bomb.
The effects of this incident, several angry demonstrations of the Copts in Cairo and Alexandria, sometimes punctuated by clashes with police that left dozens injured.
In the context of the confrontations and daily demonstrations launched by the Copts angry wounded two officers and 12 police officers in the field of Shubra, combining more than five thousand Coptic loaded with stones in the face of police personnel who are committed to instructions given to them to prevent exposure of the demonstrators Copts who Ahtmededda of police cars and private cars who happened to exist in the place , as well as for the attack on a number of institutions and buildings.
However, the silence of the riot police did not last long, especially with the launch of slogans calling for the dismissal of Interior Minister Habib el-Adli and the Governor of Alexandria.
The flared position when long chants of President Mubarak and his son, including 'O beauty of the words to your father ..Beckerhok Copts ',' O Yambark pilot.. The heart of the Coptic fond of fire '.
In the center of Cairo, security forces assaulted a number of demonstrators, including writer Bahaa Taher, while participating in a protest called for candles to the participation of intellectuals and artists Rally in Talaat Harb Square bombing against Saints Church in Alexandria.
The head of the Egyptian Coptic Church Pope Shenouda III, the Egyptian state to meet the demands of the Copts, especially the building of churches, at a time when the authorities tightened security measures around churches with the approach of the Coptic Christmas celebrations.
In an interview with the Egyptian government Allvzizn Pope Shenouda III called on the Government to take into account the demands of the Copts, who said they have been subjected to violence and suffer discrimination, particularly with regard to building churches.
The Copts called for calm and said, 'This does not mean that we mourn our children, who were martyred not act wisely'.
Shenouda expressed regret for some of the manifestations that accompanied the protests following the assault of Alexandria, said that the slogans used by some people violated all values, 'and some have tried to use violence, which is not at all of our ways'.
He accused some people who said they do not belong to the Coptic community involvement in these behaviors, without being designated.
The Pope called for the state of justice in the application of the laws so that he can calm the angry Copts. And to the Milli Majlis announced that a decision not to allow Muslims to participate in the Holiday Birth Mass on Thursday evening next.He pointed out that the churches will not pay for parties and would only pray.
A number of Muslim activists and journalists have declared their intention to participate in the Holiday Birth Mass in solidarity with the Copts, the condemnation of the massacre of Alexandria.
In a related development called Naguib Gabriel, Pope Shenouda Adviser for Legal Affairs to provide President Mubarak, Dr. Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, Dr. Mohamed Amara, Dr. Zaghloul El-Naggar to a speedy trial on charges of incitement to violence and sow a climate hostile to national unity and hostility against Christians.
Said Gabriel, during a press conference, 'We are asking President Mubarak to provide those who have created a climate of discord and enmity against the Christians of the trial, like Selim Al-Awa, Mohamed Amara, Zaghloul al-Najjar, some of whom accused the Church as overcome its overseas and invite weapons from Israel, and some of them lawful blood Copts so He has created a climate fraught with sectarianism and full of hatred against the Pope and the Church, without any action from the government and Awa discharged from his recent accusations that he caused in shipping sectarian, stressing that it is discharged from that involved in the putsch and was a weapon the pen and the tongue and no other.
For his part, refused to Awa charges against him, stressing that a permanent concern for the good relationship between the elements of the nation, however, reject the initiative to protect the Muslims of Churches night Mass Holiday Christmas, explaining that the work of the Security expressing his concern that some people used that invitation to ignite sedition new, and stressing the need for participation of all Egyptians in congratulating the Christmas brothers Copts, wishing if the Pope sends his representative to establish a mass Holiday Birth Church of Saints and that goes Shaykh al-Azhar and the Mufti and the Minister of Religious Endowment for prayers on Friday in the mosque opposite the church.
He accused the Awa Mossad involvement in this crime, especially after the dismantling of a communications network for spying for Israel, which confirms the existence of plans calls for vandalism and the targeting of Egypt, stressing that the timing of the operation and the target site suggests that the desire of Israel to work on the outbreak of a sectarian war in Egypt.
In an effort to curb the fire of sedition systems of many Muslims and Copts in conjunction with the youth of the political forces and a protest in front of the Church of the Virgin Mary district of 'pleasure' Shubra to condemn the incident painful.
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