Security officers outside the General Prosecutor’s office denied access to journalists who had arrived to file a complaint against Zamalek Sports Club chief Mortada Mansour. The situation developed into wrangles between both sides as journalists chanted slogans against police and Mansour.
The Journalists Syndicate has urged members to take action against Mansour, whose scathing attack against Al-Masry al-Youm triggered outrage among many in the press.
Mansour, an influential lawyer famous for his media and judicial wars with several art and sports celebrities, had waged an attack against the editors of the sports page in Al-Masry Al-Youm over an interview with the club’s footballer Omar Gaber.
In the interview, Gaber, the first football team’s midfielder, stressed on the importance of the club’s fans’ group, Ultras White Knights, and also stressed that the club can not force him to renew his contract.
Relations between Mansour and UWK have steeply worsened as the group announced responsibility for assaulting the club’s president with trash water last month. He also accused them of targeting him with gunshot in August.
Edited translation from Al-Masry al-Youm
