Many of the actions described on Friday appeared to hew to a script that has become familiar over the past two years, but some in the crowds of protesters appeared to be using new tactics, dressing from head to toe in black, covering their faces with bandannas or kerchiefs and brandishing black flags as they skirmished with security forces.
“Asked one of them who they are they said we don’t talk to media but we are black bloc,” wrote ?the British-Egyptian journalist Sarah Carr, adding that a member of the group had “mentioned anarchism.”
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