Outside, security forces and opponents Mursi, indoors umstellte Muslim Brotherhood: In Cairo, Fatah Mosque has become a focal point of tensions. Since the night the church is surrounded, despite hours of negotiations, hundreds of Islamists have still entrenched.

In Cairo defied Islamist protesters a request from the police to evacuate the Fatah mosque, which they had occupied earlier in the evening. After hours of negotiations first followers of ousted President Mohamed Morsi had left the church on Saturday morning, but there were still about 700 people inside, witnesses told the news channel al-Jazeera. They were afraid of the security forces and thugs.

The police had surrounded the mosque at night, hundreds of civilians they observed scene, as the site of the newspaper “Al-Masry Al-Youm ‘reported. A reporter of private television ONTV said that the police had called the people to leave the building. What actually happened was unclear at night. The curfew temporarily prevented access by independent witnesses.

On television pictures an open gate of the mosque was to be seen, which was blocked in the lower part with a barricade. Police stood outside the gate with helmets and people in civilian clothes. A woman told the Arab news station Al-Jazeera out of the mosque, the security forces would use tear gas.

At least 80 dead on the “Friday of Rage”

The proclaimed by Islamists “Friday of rage” has conjured up a new escalation of violence in Egypt. At least 80 people died, according to security sources in countrywide street fights between protesters and the police. About 300 others were injured. The police arrested more than a thousand demonstrators.

Sympathizers of the protesters Islamists hijacked the Facebook page and the profile of the Egyptian Interior Ministry in the messaging service Twitter on Friday. On Saturday, they spread further in to Twitter’s own embassies on behalf of the Ministry. They cursed among other journalists and the Sheikh of Azhar Islamic Institute, Ahmed al-Tajjib. The clergyman had tried in the violent eviction of the protest camp of the Islamists by the police last Wednesday to negotiate a compromise between the Muslim Brotherhood and the new rulers.

With protests are expected in the coming days. The declared goal of the Brotherhood is the reinstatement of deposed by the military in early July Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.

Western world shocked

The West is shocked by the bloody conflict between the discharged ousted Islamists and the new rulers. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), wants to put relations with the country to the test. She asked after a phone call with French President François Hollande an end to the bloodshed.

Because of the unrest intensified, the Foreign Office’s Travel Advice for the country. What is new is that now also from traveling to the resorts on the Red Sea near Hurghada and Sharm al-Sheikh is discouraged. Before traveling to Cairo or about the Nile delta was previously “strongly discouraged”. Most German organizers said to mid-September, all travel to the country from. Many other EU countries reacted with travel warnings.

The weeks since simmering power struggle between Islamists and Mursi opponents had escalated on Wednesday when security forces had forcibly evicted two main camps of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo. The police action followed attacks by Islamists demanded so far about 600 deaths. The Islamists insist on the reinstatement Mursi, who since his dismissal by the Army on 3 July is being held at a secret location.

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