Cairenes filed several homes and provided organized neighborhood guards with guns, clubs and knives on Saturday when widespread looting in the capital, despite the deployment of army troops to restore order. Residents reported that gangs of youths, some of them on mopeds, roamed the streets looting supermarkets, malls and shops.
Some of the bands came to the residential areas in the suburbs where they broke into some houses and luxury apartments. In the center of the city and some suburbs could hear gunfire. The situation went out so the evening of Saturday the army deployed reinforcements to the city to restore order and prevent looting, state television said.
The looting, which intensified despite a curfew from 4 pm to 8 am, led to mobilize the residents of some neighborhoods, even chic Zamalek district in the center, forming groups to protect private property. In front of some apartment buildings had been stationed armed guards with machine guns.
In the affluent suburb of Maadi, south of Cairo, the mosques summoned to young people through loudspeakers to be Stationed in front of building entrances and homes to prevent looting. Naglaa Mahmoud, a resident of Maadi, 37 years old, said that groups of thugs destroying cars and threatened to enter the houses.
He added that even the ambulance service in the neighborhood left their offices and accused the regime of planning to chaos, removing all the police force. "All this seems fixed. We are being punished for demanding change,''he said. `` What a shame that he ( Mubarak) do not worry about people or anything.
This is a corrupt regime. " The Defense Ministry urged young people to deal with looters. The ministry spokesman Othman Ismail said that the armed forces the face and are committed to protecting Egypt. Othman warned not to violate the curfew. 
Some of the bands came to the residential areas in the suburbs where they broke into some houses and luxury apartments. In the center of the city and some suburbs could hear gunfire. The situation went out so the evening of Saturday the army deployed reinforcements to the city to restore order and prevent looting, state television said.
The looting, which intensified despite a curfew from 4 pm to 8 am, led to mobilize the residents of some neighborhoods, even chic Zamalek district in the center, forming groups to protect private property. In front of some apartment buildings had been stationed armed guards with machine guns.
In the affluent suburb of Maadi, south of Cairo, the mosques summoned to young people through loudspeakers to be Stationed in front of building entrances and homes to prevent looting. Naglaa Mahmoud, a resident of Maadi, 37 years old, said that groups of thugs destroying cars and threatened to enter the houses.
He added that even the ambulance service in the neighborhood left their offices and accused the regime of planning to chaos, removing all the police force. "All this seems fixed. We are being punished for demanding change,''he said. `` What a shame that he ( Mubarak) do not worry about people or anything.
This is a corrupt regime. " The Defense Ministry urged young people to deal with looters. The ministry spokesman Othman Ismail said that the armed forces the face and are committed to protecting Egypt. Othman warned not to violate the curfew.
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