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" Since the beginning of our establishment, we have had clear ideas about the existence of politics on the pitch, which is unavoidable, because every man and member of the Altras has his ideals and convictions that he believes in, which he can express freely in these gatherings "

(One of the Italians fans )

In the well-known series "Arabesque", Hassan Arabesque asks Professor Faie (symbol of awareness and culture in the series):

* I think of the time you spent a long time in a mission, and when I asked my father was saying our Lord is his absence.

God bless you, O Hajj!

* Er, unfasten his prison! It's you, Professor, you were in prison?

- In prison, and the good people who Zi your father and the people of the street Makanosh Bajdrwa differentiate between prison and detainee, and if they love me Oi; Ruaa in Hatta that I Talat mission followed the government and scorned them if there is a mission of seven years.

* Seven years in prison Why, your crime was the worst?

- We appreciate the simplification and say a difference in views on the love of the homeland, I love Egypt in a way other than the two they loved her, and because they are the ones who were Bkhmwa: Shavoa that their way is approved, and any other method is a crime and the owners need to isolate for what bothers others, logic Pleasure! "

In the previous dialogue, Professor Wafai describes the logic of the Egyptian state's handling of any attempt to express disagreement with it. The authority monopolized the tools by which the meanings can be imposed in society as the great narrative that society must embrace and believe. The Authority possesses buildings and institutions - which enables it to carry out this process 2 . So the state has always sought to stifle any attempt to rally, belong and express outside its control.

At the beginning of March 2018, the last crisis of the Ahli fans - with the police when the crowd cheered for freedom in Mabarah Al Ahli Stadium and the team - was not a clear example of affiliation that is beyond the control of the state. Monana Gabonese, and the large arrests that took the youth of the guardians only after confirmation of the state of fear and hostility towards Alaltras, as reflected songs Alaltras this relationship with the state, which chronicles the years experienced by these groups as part of the political and social situation in Egypt, And what do their songs and songs tell us?

Who are Atras?

"He does not have a name, only his close friends know, he does not show his face, he is often covered with the head, and there is a scarf that covers his mouth. He attacks only if attacked, and helps when needed. He never stops being an individual. Even if he takes off his scarf and returns home, he fights every day .

The word "Latino" is a Latin word meaning "supernatural or excessive". This word is spoken by groups of fans of sports clubs that are known for their extreme love and affection, which is extreme in encouraging their teams and is highly organized.

They do not distinguish faces, interact in concert with everything on the pitch, sing pre-arranged songs, sometimes raise banners of encouragement, and others express what they believe in, irritate the fans and the players, but sometimes cause anger because of practices that some see as violent Or inappropriate.

Despite what others seem to imagine as young people who spend their free time wandering around a game, young people see that they believe in an idea that gives their lives meaning and deserves to be made for it. We find this in the song "Sisters in Blood for the Day of Religion", which reflects the vision of Alaltras for their belonging and insistence on it:

In the song "Try to enter the stadium" of the Al-Ahly group, we see them singing with their enthusiastic encouragement, but they also sing with words such as: "mentality .. struggle .. Hamas .. more precious words than diamonds .. know the Ahlawi among the people." The idea, the meaning, the struggle, and the freedom raise the question of what the emergence of these groups in Egypt and at that time of the causes and meanings, and what their songs expressed later events.

The beginning of the story ..

" Your eyes can not miss a member of Al-Atras either inside or outside the field, he is proud of his nature, aware of his importance among the rest of his peers who respect him for his abilities and abilities,

(Mohammed Jamal Bashir, a leader of the Al-Atras group)

Although it is a global idea that differed in its place of origin, it is most likely that its beginnings were in South America, and then it moved to southern Europe and from there to the rest of the world, including North Africa. 6 Although it is a universal idea, its rise and prominence in Egypt can not be separated from The social and political context in which these groups originated. It emerged in the last ten years of Mubarak's rule, which witnessed several transformations in the relationship of power to the street, and witnessed the birth of new movements to life in Egypt, such as the Kifaya movement, the April 6 Movement and the independent labor movements.

It has also developed in a period where a sense of alienation and loss of hope has become entrenched due to poor social and economic conditions, the closing of the horizon of movement and change, and the narrowing of the public sphere with a view to preventing any unfavorable movement of power, which has deprived many young people of any sense of belonging to the state or even society, They had to find an outlet and an entity that could satisfy their affiliation.

This appears in the lyrics of their songs, such as " Life Style ", which says :

"It was in the lower proportions ... composed of authority and money

Oh Adhs God created my legs .. You steal and keep a businessman

............

After the darkness and after the distress .. it was a must

I take my hand and my will and know the meaning of the friend

...........

2007 was our beginning .. and our lives have remained meaning

Everywhere with his spirit and his mind .. and the estimated value of us

Between sacrifice and belonging .. Shilena Zamalek in our eyes "

Although the authorities in the years before the revolution deliberately used football as an instrument of distraction from the rampant corruption in the Egyptian state, the guards have consistently affirmed that their groups are not involved in this delusion, but are part of the war on corruption and resistance 9 , For profit instead of fun, and the corruption of the media that change the facts and mislead the masses, these meanings document the song "Al Koura for the masses" produced by Altras Zamalek:

These feelings, which were reflected by their total commitment and the ability to organize and mobilize, made the authorities look at them suspiciously and try to harass them on and off the pitch. 10 The great enmity between them and the Egyptian police began with the oppressive state stick, At the time, it was also imposed on any attempt to get out of obedience to the state.

"All Cops Are Bastards" (ACAB)

" Order and obedience; here lies the basic condition of the existence of power, the sufficient condition without which the Authority does not exist .

( Bertrand de Juvenel)

In addition to the worldwide antagonism of groups of radios in the world of the modern ball system and the media as disinformation tools, there is a declared hostility between them and the 11 police officers, who represent the main obstacle of unleashing their encouragement. However, the hostility in Egypt was not only for these reasons, but it was an extension of the political and social situation, in addition to the areas that extended to interact with public issues. This was reflected in the encouraging interventions of Zamalek and Ahli against the Zionist entity, In 2009 before the police arrested the leaders of the groups to prevent them from performing on the day of the game, to represent this incident the height of fear of the state and its security obsession of the role that these links can play outside the ballpots. This hostility between the police and the orchestra documented such famous songs as "It was a failed day," a famous chant since the pre-revolutionary years, and was also echoed during the events of the Egyptian revolution.

This is also the case with the song "Gharab 2" produced by Al-Ahly club Al-Ahly, which represented an affirmation of this constant hostility between the Egyptian police and Al-Atras and every opposition or contrary to the approach of power. It also followed and emphasized the principle of ridicule and ridicule of police officers and their education and cultural level, For the irritation of security personnel in dealing with harassment.

This contradiction in the system of conflict, between the organs seeking to impose the prestige of the state through the security grip, and youth groups that see chaos in the source of strength and inspiration. Therefore, there was bound to be a clash between the two parties.

The sports media did not lose sight of the scene, where it played a negative role that contributed to fueling the tension and tension between the youth and the authorities. The sports media have taken a hostile stance from the beginning and treated them as a group of anarchists and rioters. This hostility was waiting for a reason for the explosion, and an opportunity for the retaliation of the members of the patrols themselves, as the rest of the people waiting for the opportunity to revenge and salvation from the amount of oppression and injustice that was happening to them from power in general and from the police in particular.

"War between good and evil .. and salvation Mavish Scott"

" Appeal to all the supporters of the weak and oppressed without rights in this world

(Graffiti written as a challenge to power)

The revolution in Tunisia was the spark of inspiration and hope that moved from it towards the East, where Egypt, and then to the rest of the Arab countries. Altras picked up the club's spark in a basketball match a few days before the revolution. Tunisia "in reference to the Tunisian revolution that preceded the Egyptian, and as a means to warn the internal that the fate will be so in light of the violence against different groups and organizations, the police clashed on time. Although the Al-Atras groups confirmed that they would not participate collectively in the demonstrations of 25 January and would leave their members free to participate, the success and growth of the demonstrations led the Egyptian people to participate actively in their next events.

In light of this popular escalation, Al-Atras played a very important role in the demonstrations since the Friday of the anger and the following important facts that had clashes with the Egyptian Interior, due to the experience of the previous armed groups in the clash with the police and the high organizational capacity during these clashes. Preventing the infiltration of the police and thugs into Tahrir Square in Al-Jamal is due to the groups and then to the Muslim Brotherhood because they are the only two groups with organizational capabilities, with the advantage of previous experience of violent clashes with the Egyptian security forces. Some of the songs of Eltras document this participation in the days of the revolution, and emphasize their most important demand, freedom, such as the song "We made it a time for the oppressed":

The song "The Story of Revolution" tells the story of the Egyptian revolution with the story of Altras Zamalek and their participation in it, beginning before the revolution, and then the first days and successive events, such as the military junta and the ruling, and then the events of Mohammed Mahmoud and others, thus summarizing an important period in the history of Egypt.

The events of the revolution brought the Egyptian citizen out of the area of ​​submission to tyranny towards the area of ​​participation and effectiveness. As the revolutionary transformations spread among the general public, the groups turned from sports effectiveness to political activism. The revolution provided a great opportunity for their emergence as an influential youth and protest force in the street. The role of these links is so present in the social and political problems that the country is experiencing, as its interest or activity is no longer confined to encouraging sports teams. Perhaps this transformation has accumulated hostility with the components of power in Egypt to lead the relationship between Alaltras and the heads of power to the area of ​​payment of prices.

Murder .. Revenge of power of youth

" When he said, he fell down

Because he said Zamalek lived .. Referee shot by the killer "

(From a song to Eltras Zamalek in the lament of one of its members killed by the Egyptian police)

On May 16, 2015, the Court of Cassation in Cairo issued a ruling banning the activities of the links in the country as terrorist groups, 18 to link with other groups and Egyptian movements classified by the state as terrorist following the coup against all the gains of the January revolution. This time the suit was filed against Al-Atlras through Zamalek president Mortada Mansour. This is a very clear representation of the hostility of the state with all its components to Al-Atras and others who are out of power.

Al-Zamalek, the head of the club 19 and the Egyptian police stormed the scene, accusing them of masterminding the incident of the air defense stadium, which killed 20 Zamalek fans in February 2015, who died in an iron corridor set up by the police for allegedly entering the stadium. Later with a barrage of cartridges and tear gas. Al-Atlras gave the story and the accusations in the song "Open Benmut":

The rivalry between Murtaza and the police has not ceased on the one hand and the police on the other. Police officers have long been apprehended by arrests and fabricated trials, accusing them of killing their colleagues. From time to instigation of Murtada, acquitted him the court the first time and then sentenced him in the second prison to seven years.


These incidents were not unusual in the Egyptian case. They were preceded by the killing of the Zamalek fans in the famous Port Said massacre, which killed 74 Al-Ahly fans in February, but from 2012. The charges were then extended to all the security services of the police and its army of thugs and intelligence. The military who was ruling Egypt in that period, and I gave birth to this painful incident in the song "Hakaytna" to Ahlras Ahli:

The method of murder that continued the Egyptian authority in his followers since the events of the revolution, through the events of Muhammad Mahmoud, and the subsequent repression and killing of the Altras, and then coup against the gains of the revolution, and the killing of people in multiple events ending with mass murder in the fourth and Renaissance, It was also a continuation of the state-sanctioned violence to crush any attempt at change. Amidst all this fuss about encouraging the ball and the clash with power, killing and repression, he was always surprised by his broader vision of the nation's issues, to emphasize that the Egyptian revolution is part of every part of a great Arab movement seeking change and liberation from repression.

From the ball fields .. Ain not absent from the issues of the nation

The flag of Palestine, which does not leave the stands when filled by Altras Zamalek group in support of the cause of Palestine, in reference to not forgetting the right of the Palestinian brothers in their land 21 , is to establish a state of belonging in the lives of these young people embodies them singing words such as: "Intifada for Talent right of case" "War of the end of time," which talks about the Palestinian cause and the belief in resistance to the restoration of the right:

In addition to the many positions that entrench the idea of ​​faith in Alaltras and their awareness of the question of Palestine, such as their participation in the siege of the Israeli embassy in Cairo to demand the closure and expulsion of the ambassador, the siege of the masses following the revolution faced by the police assault, to arrest and arrest a number of members 22 , In 2011, and their repeated positions and chants for Palestine. Palestine is not the only one of the nation's issues, the Arab revolutions and the hope of the advancement of the Arab and Islamic world, and the desire to restore power and civilization precedent were all present in the song "Arab revolutionary" Altras also produced Zamalek also:

This faith and the hope of liberation that were present in the songs of Altras, as was also in the minds and souls of all who participated in the Egyptian revolution and all the Arab revolutions, the hope of liberation that has now broken in the hearts of everyone, and which the masses gradually lost. ?

Freedom for the stairs .. Freedom for the masses

"Freedom for detainees, freedom for the masses, freedom for all of Egypt!" Are the slogans that Al-Atras sees as a true expression of the current political and social situation in Egypt. The confiscation of freedoms and opinions and the attempt to subject everyone to the state's volition does not depart from the authority's continued attempt to subvert the performance of Al-Baras and adapt it to be part of a society subject to totalitarian rule. Defending themselves as an idea and a value of resistance, which is the goal of freedom, is the freedom that they demand in their song "An encouraging fan of Nazir" in which they preach the survival of the idea and the continuation of those who struggle behind it:

This struggle, which was manifested in the unique moments, in which the groups emerged from the private sphere to touch the political arena, which was the moments of the Assembly achieved a national consensus on the situation and the goal, and appeared to be the most obvious in the defense of their rights, which they consider red lines can not do without In any case, they are as they say "the rights of our brothers and our friends" 23 . This struggle, which has engendered a struggle with power, has not yet ended, but it is certain that the attempts of power in Egypt to subjugate society completely, without expecting any resistance from society, are impossible - or at least unlikely - as evidenced by the current resistance behavior Albeit marginal.