Christians Under Attack

* The police threw tear gas at unarmed monks from the monastery and beat the monks with sticks and glass, which resulted in the injury of three monks in different parts of their bodies.
* Monks trapped so far insisted on going to the monastery of martyrdom.

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Tuesday, the police force beyond the 300-strong military, led by a number of brigades, police stormed the monastery of St. Macarius the Alexandrian Rayan Valley in Fayoum, and threw tear gas at unarmed monks monastery, wounding three monks.
In an exclusive statement to the newspaper Copts United monk, Paul Elmakarie said that “ hordes of police forces numbering more than 300 military, backed by a large number of cars, armored vehicles and armored vehicles attacked the monastery in protest at the introduction of non-white block for the construction of some buildings for the monks”.
He said that the attack on the monastery occurred in full at eight o'clock on Tuesday evening.

He pointed out that the police threw tear gas at unarmed monks the monastery and the monks beat with sticks, glass, wounding three monks in different parts of their bodies, and there are still some wounds as a result of being physically assaulted by police forces.
The monk told Paul Elmakarie Copts United,” the police attacked us, and if we were terrorists!!” So as to prevent the construction of a monastery on the premises even though it needed monastery buildings for the accommodation of the monks, in reference to the existence of at least five monks inside Qlaiah one.

He added: police prohibit the establishment of the monastery buildings, while allowing the building in protected natural. The monk, Paul Elmakarie is ashamed that the Egyptian government to infringe on the isolation of monks in the monastery and is through their terrorism and intimidation in this way.
He added that the monks were trapped now in the monastery.
It is noteworthy that this is not the first incident where they had been assaulted the police forces in Fayoum on the monastery, but that there were attacks on the monastery earlier in the month of February of this year, The New Copts United have documented the events of this attack video and audio on the lips of Father Paul Elmakarie