Hundreds of demonstrators handed in skirmishes with the police: with anger and riots have Coptic Christians in Egypt to the terrorist attack in Alexandria responding. A suicide bomber had seized more than 20 believers to their deaths - now there is speculation about a connection to al-Qaida. Alexandria - Following the deadly attack on a church in Alexandria, Egypt, have been delivered there on Saturday afternoon, young Coptic Christians and security forces of violent clashes.Hundreds of angry protesters formed themselves into several small groups. They called "cowardly terrorists - the blood of the Copts is not free" and hurled stones and bottles against the security forces stationed around the Anschlagsort how a reporter said. The security forces fired back with tear Gass and rubber bullets.
The suspected suicide attack outside a church in the eastern coastal city of New Year's Eve, 21 people were killed and at least 79 others injured. As hundreds streamed out of the Coptic New Year's Mass, a deafening explosion tore the contemplative mood. Corpses were lying in their blood, wounded writhing on the floor screaming, burning car wreckage, debris and broken glass everywhere - pictures, as they are known in Egypt only from television reports from Baghdad.
President Hosni Mubarak spoke of "a heinous act," which is directed against the entire country, Copts and Muslims. Without further explanation accused the authority of "foreign elements" were behind the murder and contractors. In fact, recently a group threatened with links to the Islamist terror network al-Qaida in Iraq Christians in the entire Middle East with stops.
The organization accused the Copts, two women who convert from Christianity to Islam as "hostages" to be recorded. But until Saturday afternoon, no one claimed responsibility for the attack in Alexandria. Egypt's Copts have a reason to rage. The state that Islam is enshrined as the official religion in the constitution at a disadvantage in many areas.
You may only rarely build churches and the government services discrimination against Muslims. While Christians can always convert to Islam - and many do so because of the strict separation provisions of the Coptic Church, too - it is impossible for a Muslim to accept the Christian faith.
More enlightened Copts but also criticize the siege mentality, the dogmatism and the intolerance that are in their church under Pope Shenuda III. had taken hold. Pope Benedict XVI. on Saturday called for governments around the world to protect the Christians. He called for "concrete and sustained commitment" to intolerance and discrimination.
Words are not enough on its own, the head of the Catholic Church, said at the New Year's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Witnesses said that the tragedy could have been worse fail if the bomber had waited until the end of the service. He lit the bomb that is at a time when only the first believers still left in support of ongoing trade fair.
The BBC showed a mobile phone inside the church recorded clip to see on which is how the church community was torn by the explosion from their liturgical chants. Mubarak announced a tough response. His authority would ensure that the perpetrators would be tracked down and "the terrorism of the arm chopped off 'will.
Also, the official Islamic institution Al Azhar and the Islamic opposition Muslim Brotherhood condemned the attack. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle was shocked by the attack and said:. "Shows I this act of brutality against people who wanted to commit peacefully at a show in the New Year condemned in the strongest terms the cynical actions of the bombers, how necessary it is determined against terrorism and religious intolerance to proceed.
" The conflicts between Muslim and Christian Egyptians always lead to deadly violence. But the massacre at Alexandria now points to a very different quality.
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