Published Saturday, January 26, 2013, 9: 01 AM EST
Last updated on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 10: 39 PM EST
CAIRO--the angry, relatives and residents of which devastated the Egyptian port city on Saturday, rioting, which killed at least 27 people after a judge sentenced 20 soccer fans to death in deadly violence after the game last year.
The unrest was the latest bout of violence that left a total of 38 people dead in two days, including 11 deaths during clashes between police and demonstrators Friday marking the second anniversary of the uprising that overthrew longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.
Chairman Mohammed Morsi canceled the scheduled trip to Ethiopia on Saturday and met for the first time, on the other hand, the top generals as part of the newly formed National Defense Council.
The violence broke out when the Port Said the judge sentenced 21 people to death in connection with the Feb. 1 soccer melee that killed 74 fans of Cairo-based Al-Ahly team. In Egypt usually performed a series of executions by hanging.
All the defendants, who were not present in the courtroom Saturday for security reasons-might appeal to the verdict.
Judge Sobhi Abdel-Maguid did not let him, when he read 21 73 defendants on Saturday. The rest of the 52 defendants, including nine security officers, is scheduled to be delivered to the Court on March 9. Some have been charged with murder and other ancillary invaders.
A die-hard soccer fans from both teams are known as the Ultras, will keep the police, at least in part responsible for the February violence, which was the world's worst soccer violence in 15 years, says officers at the game is trying to stop the bloodshed. They are critical of the President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi is doing little to reform the police or the judiciary, since he started in July.
The opposition says Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected civilian President and his allies on the Board of Directors of the Muslim Brotherhood is not the stability of constant political turmoil and a worsening economy in the Middle, and referring to the crime.
On Saturday, the main opposition party, the National Salvation Front said it alleges that Morsi "excessive use of force by security forces against demonstrators." They threatened to boycott upcoming parliamentary elections if it does not meet its demands, which include Morsi, amending the articles of the new Constitution.
The brotherhood said in its statement that "misleading" media outlets blamed "heightens people's anger at the current administration and to surmise."
As soon as Saturday's Court were read live on State television, two police officers were shot dead outside the main prison in Port Said, when angry, relatives tried to free the defendants. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and live ammunition at crowds outside the prison.
The rest of the inhabitants of the city attempted to Governor's Office, police stations, the power plant and the main courthouse. Residents of one of Eastern Paltamo.
Hospital in Paltamo, Dr. Abdel-Raham Farah, the Director said, two local soccer players was shot to death, because they were apparently on their way to practice. He identified them, Mahmoud Abdel Halim al-Dizawi, who played on a map of Al Marikh-club, and Tamer al-Fahla, who used to play on a map of Al Masry. Al-Diwazi was shot three times, the doctor said.
Education is the club is located close to the prison that the residents tried to.
The army was sent to restore security but beatings continued to try to Spring Hill in the evening. The army was widely used to keep in order from top generals, who took over after Hosni Mubarak, but the army has kept a lower profile since Morsi was elected.
The Egyptian army also was sent into the Suez Canal on a map of the eight people killed in Friday's clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to the election of the new President, and brotherhood. A second Demonstrator died in Ismailiya and security officials told the State MENA News Agency, two police officers were killed in Friday's protests.
Many of the young men, which led to mass protests and clashes between natives of Ultras. They often come from poor neighborhoods and see the police, which was the fate of an authoritarian than their backbone of Mubarak.
"The police are the bad guys!" yelled the deceased relatives inside the courtroom, before the judge took the bench.
Close to Cairo's Tahrir square, where tens of thousands had gathered two years anniversary a day earlier, Al-Ahly Ultras waved a red flag, their own team as they clashed with police, who fired tear gas to pay for the Government from among the headquarters and Parliament.
Highlight the distrust that lingers between a lot of the public and the police, the family and witnesses say Mubarak loyalists had a hand in instigating the attack, which began last year when the Port Said the home team won the match 3-1, and even the police were responsible for gross negligence.
Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch after the game ended with attacking Cairo's Al-Ahly fans. Authorities off the stadium lights plunges into darkness. Press and hold to exit the hallway to flee from a set of chained to the gate until broke open. Many people are trying to escape from the crowd under the crushed.
Goes back to the said, it was just a bloodthirsty Al Masry fans and the lack of adequate protection, which led to the death of their colleagues. The police are to blame on both sides of the usual searches for weapons in the stadium.
Anger boils in Port Said, where residents say they have unfairly scapegoats.
A lawyer for one of the defendants, the Court said the death penalty was a political one.
"There's nothing to say, nothing these people do not understand what this Court is based," Mohammed al-Daw told the Associated Press by telephone.
"Our situation is serious because of the Port Said children were taken from their homes wearing green t-shirts," he said, referring to Al Masry team color.
Al-Daw and other defense attorneys said all those who had condemned Al-Masry fans. As usual in Egypt, sentences will be sent to the nation's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti of Syria for approval, even though the Court has the final say on the matter of death.
Al-Ahly, which was attacked by rival Al Masry Club stands in the case of Port Said, the fans had been promised more violence if the death penalty is not given in the days leading up to the judgment.
Before the judge could read the names of the 21 families, broke out in relief, shout "Allahu Akbar!" Arabic, "God is great," hands in the air and waving the picture of the deceased. One man fainted, while others hugged each other. The judge smacked the bench several times to try to restore calm courtroom.
"This was necessary," said Nour al-Sabah, whose 17-year-old son Ahmed Zakaria died last year in the melee. "Now I want to see guys with their own eyes when, just as they saw the murder of my son."
Thousands of fans gathered outside the Al-Ahly Cairo Sports Club, chanting against the police and Government.
"We are really happy," Mohamed Ahmed, attack, the family said. "The Government helped to block the gates of the stadium, Ultras Paltamo until people suffocated to death.
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