Protesters invaded Egypt State Building

The protestors surrounded the state security building on Saturday to try to take the archives of the population that are stored by regime officials accused of violating human rights, witnesses said.

These incidents occurred when the former Minister of Interior Habib al-Adly, who control the state police, tried in cairo on charges of corruption, the first case involving a member of the government of President Hosni Mubarak who was ousted.

Hundreds of protesters tried to invade the state security building in the area of Shiekh Zayed, a suburb of Cairo, where the officers inside the building fired shots to disperse the mass.

"We could see police personnel in the building to burn the archives," said an eyewitness.

"Window-jendala fly open and piles of records," said one other witness told AFP by telephone.

Army troops, who have been maintaining security since the police was no longer visible on the streets as anti-government rallies took place last month, preventing the demonstrators entered the building. In the town of Mersa Matrouh, on the northwest of Egypt, the protesters stormed the office of the state-security headquarters and seized documents before burning the buildings.
Citizens in the seaside town was sitting in the cafes to check the documents they receive as evidence of violations of human rights, while smoke billowed from the buildings nearby, said an eyewitness. On Friday, hundreds of people gathered outside the state security building Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, hurling Molotov cocktails and set fire to police cars.

Some residents tried to break into the building, while security officers fired shots in before the army intervened. The protesters, who managed to overthrow Mubarak in February I1, called for the closure of agencies of State Security Investigation (SSI), which has sedikitnyha 100,000 workers and a large network of informers, said a security officer told AFP.

On Friday, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, the newly appointed, promised to reform the security forces when he made a speech before thousands of people at the roundabout Tahrir, Cairo, which became the center of protests to overthrow Mubarak. "I pray that Egypt became a free country and its security apparatus will serve its citizens," said Sharaf.