Ultras bolster protesters in battles on Cairo’s Tahrir Square

Ultras descend on Tahrir Square (Picture from Twitter)

By James M. Dorsey

Militant soccer fans bolstered this weekend the ranks of demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding an end to military rule in a re-enactment of the protests that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.

Like early this year, the ultras – militant, highly politicised, violen…