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(ANSAmed) - CAIRO, JANUARY 14 - A group of some twenty Muslims with automatic weapons attacked on January 8 a Coptic monastery in Upper Egypt, in Minya, 300 kilometres south of Cairo, injuring a monk and causing damages, the Egyptian media report today and sources of the monastery confirmed to ANSA. Some forty men attacked for six hours the monastery of Abo Fana and destroyed paintings and property, independent weekly Khamis reports. The attack was led by an Egyptian of the Islamic religion who claims to be owner of the land where the monastery rises, Samir el Lolly. A religious from the monastery, contacted on the phone from Cairo, said that this is not the first time. The religious authorities had already required that a protection wall is built. Two years ago El Lolly asked the monastery to pay 10,000 Egyptian pounds (some 1,200 euro) in order to claim the ownership of the monastery. "They want that we leave the monastery," one of the twelve monks who live in Abo Fana said. Disputes between Muslims and Copts, 10% of 80 million Egyptians, are already very frequent. (ANSAmed).