Posted on 02/09/2015 2:07:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
Survivors described it as a corridor of death: a narrow route of high, chain-link security fences and barbed wire that thousands of soccer fans were filing through before entering the stadium to watch their team play.
Then, mayhem broke out. Those at the front of the line were turned back by police. Those in the back continued to press forward. Jittery police fired tear gas into the middle of the crowd, creating what survivors said was "like a whirlpool" — sucking people into a crush of bodies with no way out.
The stampede killed 22 people Sunday night at the Air Defense stadium, a military facility in an eastern suburb of Cairo, prior to the game between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI.
The scene was all too familiar. Almost three years to the day, 74 soccer fans were killed in unprecedented stadium riot in Port Said where the Al-Masry team hosted a match with rival Al-Ahly of Cairo as police watched and failed to intervene. That Feb. 1, 2012, bloodshed prompted the cancellation of the national championship, further entrenching the hostility between police and soccer fans.
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Look, the police have a dangerous job, and the important thing is that they made it home to their families.
Unprecedented? Not anymore!
There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the police.
Perhaps they need to make it an annual event. / s
Which looks worse on your obituary.... trampled in a soccer stampede or aspiring rapper?
>>Which looks worse on your obituary.... trampled in a soccer stampede or aspiring rapper?
Soccer stampede is definitely worse. You just got killed trying to watch men jogging in silk shorts.
At least it was only soccer fans that died rather than normal people.
So there’s that.
I wouldn’t be caught dead at a soccer riot....oh wait....
The A-holes caused this. They play some games without spectators because of the violence. They decided to allow like a third of the stadiums capacity to be used, because everyone knows they will riot if you fill all the seats.
They still got weird and tried to storm the gate, many without tickets.
So Im glad the cops did go home safe from this pack of hyenas.
Zamalek and Al-Ahli is the most dangerous rivalry in world sports. To call it a blood feud is putting it mildly.
Soccer stampede is definitely worse. You just got killed trying to watch men jogging running around in silk shorts thinking it will be REALLY bad if I touch anything with my hands.
Fixed it.
This is why NFL stadiums have wide corridors that can get everyone out of the stadium in short order safely.
****The stampede killed 22 people ***
Twenty two? Get back with us when it reaches THIS level!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidenae
Stadium disaster
In 27 AD, an apparently cheaply built wooden amphitheatre, constructed by an entrepreneur named Atilius, collapsed in Fidenae resulting in by far the worst stadium disaster in history with as many as 20,000 dead and wounded out of the total audience of 50,000.[5][6]
Wow. That boggles the mind!
Until Heysel and Hillsborough, that was the case. But when English stadia went to all-seaters after the Taylor Report was issued, segregation of away fans became the norm. Just last week there was a controversy because Everton didn’t have sufficient “segregation” plans in place at Goodison Park, causing the police to attempt to rearrange last Saturday’s match.
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