Some clashes erupted today between police and thousands of village guards who are protesting for several hours at the headquarters of the National Assembly (Lower House) in downtown Algiers, against a plan that provides for the reorganization of that body . The police arrested at least three representatives of municipal and guards tried to push the concentrates with their shields, after they threw bottles and wooden blocks on the riot.
The police tried to disperse the concentration but the communal guards persist for the time its intention to maintain the protest. A delegation of the demonstrators was received by the Assembly President, Abdelaziz Ziari, who sent them that their demands were legitimate and that it had moved to the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
"Your enemies are our enemies, your requests are legitimate and are now at the level of the presidency of the Republic and must wait for the response," said Ziari representatives of village guards, according to them. Then urged authorities to evacuate concentrates Avenue but they refused to leave the place until there is at least signal the presidency of the republic in addressing their claims, as the demonstrators cried.
Between 6,000 and 7,000 Communal Guards, Algerian security forces under the Ministry of Interior, from all provinces of the country remain concentrated from this morning at the parliament building, in a totally unusual protest in Algiers, where demonstrations are disabled usually by the police.
The agents, many of them mutilated or injuries from the fight against terrorism, dealing with the wide avenue colonial waterfront of the capital which bears the name of Ernesto Che Guevara, closed to traffic in both directions, which has caused major traffic jams in the capital. "We are tired of promises, we have fulfilled our national duty, where are our rights," shouted the communal guards, which include many elderly, but also young people in their thirties.
The body of the communal guards was created in 1994 to help the fight against terrorism in rural areas. After the relative decline of the terrorist attacks in recent years, the Algerian government has decided to reorganize the structure of that body. Last week, the Algerian interior minister, Ould Kabli Dahu, announced to the representatives of the communal guards a reorganization plan, which includes the distribution of some agents in the regular Army forces and the incorporation of other local security agents.
Among the concentrates showing several wounds and mutilations of the fight against terrorism. One of them took off today a prosthetic leg and lifted it to the headquarters of the National Assembly in protest. La Guardia Community currently has around the country with nearly 94,000 agents, according to sources in the body.
Since 1994 he has recorded 4,600 deaths and thousands of wounded among its ranks, the sources said. The officials rejected the proposed reorganization of the Interior and demand compensation for its 17 years of service. "We were in first place in the fight against terrorism and now the Government tried to get rid of us," said Areski Jilali, a communal guard wounded in the abdomen, neck and shrapnel from a bomb in the legs.
Most guards carry their blue fatigues and cap, many holding flags of Algeria and some photos of Bouteflika. 
The police tried to disperse the concentration but the communal guards persist for the time its intention to maintain the protest. A delegation of the demonstrators was received by the Assembly President, Abdelaziz Ziari, who sent them that their demands were legitimate and that it had moved to the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
"Your enemies are our enemies, your requests are legitimate and are now at the level of the presidency of the Republic and must wait for the response," said Ziari representatives of village guards, according to them. Then urged authorities to evacuate concentrates Avenue but they refused to leave the place until there is at least signal the presidency of the republic in addressing their claims, as the demonstrators cried.
Between 6,000 and 7,000 Communal Guards, Algerian security forces under the Ministry of Interior, from all provinces of the country remain concentrated from this morning at the parliament building, in a totally unusual protest in Algiers, where demonstrations are disabled usually by the police.
The agents, many of them mutilated or injuries from the fight against terrorism, dealing with the wide avenue colonial waterfront of the capital which bears the name of Ernesto Che Guevara, closed to traffic in both directions, which has caused major traffic jams in the capital. "We are tired of promises, we have fulfilled our national duty, where are our rights," shouted the communal guards, which include many elderly, but also young people in their thirties.
The body of the communal guards was created in 1994 to help the fight against terrorism in rural areas. After the relative decline of the terrorist attacks in recent years, the Algerian government has decided to reorganize the structure of that body. Last week, the Algerian interior minister, Ould Kabli Dahu, announced to the representatives of the communal guards a reorganization plan, which includes the distribution of some agents in the regular Army forces and the incorporation of other local security agents.
Among the concentrates showing several wounds and mutilations of the fight against terrorism. One of them took off today a prosthetic leg and lifted it to the headquarters of the National Assembly in protest. La Guardia Community currently has around the country with nearly 94,000 agents, according to sources in the body.
Since 1994 he has recorded 4,600 deaths and thousands of wounded among its ranks, the sources said. The officials rejected the proposed reorganization of the Interior and demand compensation for its 17 years of service. "We were in first place in the fight against terrorism and now the Government tried to get rid of us," said Areski Jilali, a communal guard wounded in the abdomen, neck and shrapnel from a bomb in the legs.
Most guards carry their blue fatigues and cap, many holding flags of Algeria and some photos of Bouteflika.
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