Police clash with slum fire victims

Here’s a video of the clashes that happened between the police and the residents of Qale’t Kabsh slum, who were demonstrating in Tahrir Square last week demanding compensation from the government after their houses were burnt down.

The government did find an alternative housing for only 100 families last Monday, resettling them in El-Nahda neighborhood, Madinet el-Salam. On the same day, Central Security Forces raided the slum again, and rounded up roughly 70 men, and took them in two prison trucks, throwing one group in the desert on the Cairo-Suez road and another near Tora, south of Cairo. They were warned if they demonstrate again, “they’ll be taken behind the sun,” according to a leftist activist who is in touch with the slum community leaders.