Clashes near Itihadiya repelled by security forces

Luiz Sanchez
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Clashes ensued on Friday after unidentified people took to Itihadiya Palace as night fell. (Photo By: Ahmed Al-Malky)
Clashes ensued on Friday after unidentified people took to Itihadiya Palace as night fell. (Photo By: Ahmed Al-Malky)
Clashes ensued on Friday after unidentified people took to Itihadiya Palace as night fell.
(Photo By: Ahmed Al-Malky)

Clashes ensued on Friday after unidentified people took to Itihadiya Palace as night fell. It is unclear what triggered the violence, although the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram was quick to blame “members of the Black Bloc” for throwing Molotov cocktails at the palace and stabbing a security officer.

Al-Ahram also reported two people were arrested in the clashes, which reportedly subsided Friday evening.

Although the Black Bloc is not a group in the strict sense of the word, the government has often pointed to masked protesters as belonging to the Black Bloc.

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