Egypt: unfinished business | Editorial

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Egypt: unfinished business | Editorial

The country’s reaction to the stadium disaster shows that the desire to finish what started a year ago is as strong as everOne of the many features which made Egypt’s deadliest night of football different from similar stadium disasters at Hillsborough or Heysel is the widespread belief that the violence was planned. There is circumstantial evidence for this view: from Port Said stadium itself, where knives and swords were smuggled into the stadium, exit gates were locked, gates on to the pitch mysteriously opened, and riot police remained uncharacteristically static; and from the wider political context, just one week after the military partially lifted the state of emergency.