"Power murderer!", "Bouteflika emerges youth committed!", "Ouyahia thief!", "Down with dictatorship and injustice!", "Bouteflika Ouyahia, terrorist government!". Along the Boulevard Belouizdad, near the popular district of Belcourt and street Hassiba Benbouali, slogans against the Algerian regime has resonated throughout the morning of Saturday, despite the anti-riot trucks that had been made very early to avoid Walking takes the direction of Martyrs' Square.
To elude the vigilance of the police, the demonstrators - 1 000-2 000, according to organizers - gathered in small groups, transforming the square into 1-May arena of contestation. "This is not about people.This is the story of a rotten regime must fall. It is imperative that youth take up the torch! "Said Farouk Atamna, member of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) of Jijel, a coastal city east of the country, present in the crowd. Before further, questioning the hundreds of billions of dollars held by the generals who have gone up in smoke without the Algerians do not see color, "I tell people this scheme: 'Please, release! 'and I call all those who love their country to join us to bring about change. "
"The Algerian people is not a cow who thinks only of eating!"
Struck by the riot police, another member of the RCD, Tahar Besbes, lost consciousness for several hours. He had to be urgently admitted to hospital Mustapha Bacha. Mohsen Belabas, spokesman of the party, the days of Mr. Besbes, who had regained consciousness, are not in danger, even if it suffers injuries in the knee and back.
Foreign language teacher at the University of Algiers, Ismail Sebai wishes him a peaceful change in his country. "Everybody is corrupted in Algeria since the ordinary citizen to the president. The people want change. Even those officers that you see and affecting 40,000 dinars per month (about 350 euros) in dream."And specify that the Algerians are under an arbitrary power since 1962, the country's independence. Kamel, another protester from the town of Tizi-Ouzou, said the crisis in Algeria has no connection with the soaring prices of food staples, foremost among which sugar and milk. "The Algerian people is not a cow who thinks only of eating. It seeks to regain its freedom and dignity", and launches it.
For its part, the honorary president of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LADDH), Mr. Ali Yahia Abdenour, 90, braved the forbidden to come to support the protesters.Surrounded by police and journalists, he promised that the fight would continue until the regime fell. "It is a march for the people. We will not allow anyone to recover it. Neither political parties and even less power," he said before moving on: "I can not talk too much, I'm sick and tired ". At his side, Mr Mustapha Bouchachi, president of the LADDH, also manhandled by the police, assured that this campaign would not stop there. "We will continue to organize walks every Saturday, to the satisfaction of our claims."
