Monday, February 21, 2011

Seriously injured an opposition MP during a police charge in Algiers

Second Saturday in protest in Algiers and second win of the police on opposition much less in number and wills. Thousands of riot police have been monitored at all times hundreds of protesters, from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon, have occupied the streets near the Plaza on May 1. Police have used smoke canisters or projectile fragmentation.

Neither has had to use water cannons. Their numerical superiority was such that you have enough batons and shields. A deputy of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) has been seriously injured. It was the only victim of the march. The regime of President Bouteflika had cut off access to the center of Algiers.

The trains stopped circular and square around May 1 were shielded. No outside Algiers Algeria could reach the capital. The event has failed to start. He has tried several times with leaders of the RCD and the Algerian League of Human Rights in front, but it was impossible. Rabah Boucetta, national secretary of the RCD, he told La Vanguardia that will keep the demonstrations every Saturday until the fall of the regime.

The demonstrations are banned in Algeria since 1992. The state of emergency in force since then could be lifted later this month, as promised by the prime minister. Boucetta believes that without the coercion of the police the vast majority of Algerians would go out. This morning was difficult to quantify.

Boucetta ensures that was 3,000 but the truth is that, being mixed with police and provocateurs, it was impossible to get an idea of how many there were. Among them were middle-class professionals, young unemployed and the Islamists. They shouted slogans like "power, murderer" and "Algeria, free and democratic." Not content with a relay in the halls of power.

They want a radical change of regime, ie, a rule of law and full democracy. Both sides denounced corruption, fueled by the power has been installed at all levels of social and economic life. The rioters were youths recruited by police to trap the event, and they have succeeded. Just fifty numbered, but they were very vocal and aggressive, and have not had any problems to be imposed on the few activists who have stood up to them.

The riots that have erupted sporadically or organized since last January have caused five deaths and 800 injuries.

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