Daily World Buzz: Man sets himself on fire in front of Parliament Perhaps emulation of the young in Tunis

Monday, January 17, 2011

Man sets himself on fire in front of Parliament Perhaps emulation of the young in Tunis

CAIRO - A man set himself on fire outside the Egyptian parliament. The local sources. There are currently no known reason for the gesture even though it could be a rival of the 26-year old Mohamed Bouziz, the Tunisian Jan Palach set himself on fire on December 17 last year triggered the protests that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben.

Yesterday, three similar cases were reported in Algeria. The young Egyptian who, according to preliminary information, the owner of a small restaurant that was closed by the authorities, would have poured gasoline as a form of protest against their poor living conditions and would have burned down when some people tried to come near him.

The fire was quickly extinguished and the young man was taken to hospital with third-degree burns. According to security sources, the man set himself on fire in front of the Assembly of the people, after trying to enter. Apparently the man, from the region of Ismailia, on the west bank of the Suez Canal, north of Cairo, we saw close the restaurant he owns, and after trying to reopen it, he decided to go to Cairo to bring the request directly to the Assembly of the people, but the entrance was blocked by security.