CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday called for an investigation into a confrontation with riot police officers that killed at least 25 people at the gates of a soccer stadium here, as prosecutors ordered the arrest of the leaders of a fan group.
The government ordered the league to suspend play indefinitely. The violence began on Sunday night, when thousands of fans of the Cairo soccer team Zamalek were packed into a narrow, caged-in corridor as they tried to enter the stadium.
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There was no indication whether Mr. Sisi intended to redirect the general prosecutor from his initial focus on the fans’ culpability. Human rights advocates say that the police are rarely held accountable for civilian deaths in Egypt.
