Lundi 19 Octobre 2009 -- Plusieurs personnes ont été blessées dans des affrontements entre la police et des manifestants, lundi 19 octobre, au quartier de Diar Echemms, dans la commune d'El Mouradia, non loin de la présidence de la république. Les affrontements ont commencé en fin de matinée et se sont poursuivis jusqu’à la fin de la journée, selon des témoins. La police est intervenue après que des habitants d'un bidonville aient tentés de construire dans un stade attenant au quartier. Les policiers ont usé de bombes lacrymogènes pour disperser les manifestants. Les forces de l’ordre étaient appuyées par un hélicoptère qui a survolé sans interruption le lieu des affrontements. Les manifestants ont brulé des pneus et utilisés des pierres. Cette manifestation intervient quelques jours après une bataille rangée entre des bandes rivales dans le quartier populaire de Bab El Oued. Depuis quelque mois des émeutes éclatent un peu partout à travers le territoire national. Les manifestants protestent pour des problèmes sociaux notamment le logement, l'eau ou encore chômage.
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19th October 2009 18:40 #1
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ALGIERS, October 19, 2009 (Reuters) - Police in the Algerian capital used water cannon on Monday to try to disperse about 100 young men protesting about housing conditions. Algeria, an oil and gas producer which suffers from high unemployment and a housing shortage, has periodic outbreaks of social unrest but rarely in the heavily-policed capital. A Reuters reporter in the Diar Echams district saw the protesters throwing stones at a force of about 400 police officers. Police in riot gear use water cannon and an armoured vehicle in unsuccessful attempts to disperse them. Residents said the protesters lived in a shantytown and were angered when local authorities published a list of those eligible for re-housing. They believed they were being discriminated against, the residents said. "Most of the young people living here are in fact not living," said a man in his 50s who gave his name as Ahmed. "They have nothing. I know many who are over 40 but cannot get married because they do not have a house and they do not have a job." By evening, there was a lull in the clashes after police and representatives of the protesters began negotiations.
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19th October 2009 19:59 #3
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October 20, 2009 -- A riot has broken out on the eastern edge of Algeria's capital after police moved in to tear down squatters' shanties. Witnesses, including local shopkeeper Rachi Zeroual, say several dozen people appeared to have been hurt in Monday's riot. Police say about 10 officers were injured. Witnesses say police used water canons and tear gas to fight back rioters armed with stones. Many shops were vandalised. The violence broke out when police acting on a judge's order arrived to raze shacks, some built illegally on a football pitch, in a working-class neighbourhood. Officials plan to tear down a shantytown and build housing in the neighbourhood two kilometres from the office of the North African nation's president.
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20th October 2009 16:41 #5
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Mardi 20 Octobre 2009 -- Mardi après-midi, au lendemain des affrontements qui ont fait plusieurs blessés et provoqué une quarantaine d’arrestations au quartier de Diar Echemms, dans la commune d’El Madania, la tension était vive dans ce quartier populaire d’Alger. Une centaine de manifestants, essentiellement des jeunes issus du quartier, ont tenté, pour le deuxième jour consécutif, d’affronter les forces de police présentes en force sur place. Mais leurs tentatives se sont limités à des jets de projectiles depuis les hauteurs du quartier sans parvenir à franchir l’impressionnant dispositif de sécurité mis en place : des forces antiémeutes et des policiers en civil ont quadrillé ce quartier sensible de la capitale. Ils empêchaient les manifestants de progresser vers le quartier de Bir Mourad Raïs où se trouvent les sièges de plusieurs institutions et entreprises. Ces émeutes, les premières à Alger depuis plusieurs années, ont éclaté pour des raisons sociales. Les habitants de ce quartier pauvre de la capitale reprochent aux autorités locales de refuser de prendre en charge leurs problèmes liés au logement.
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20th October 2009 18:24 #6
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ALGIERS, October 20, 2009 (Reuters) - About 100 protesters threw stones and petrol bombs at police in Algeria's capital on Tuesday in a second day of clashes fuelled by unrest over unemployment and housing shortages. One police officer was seriously hurt when about 400 police in riot gear used tear gas and an armoured vehicle in an unsuccessful attempt to clear the protesters from a road they had been blocking, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Algeria, an energy producer fighting an al Qaeda-linked insurgency, rarely sees outbreaks of rioting in the heavily-policed capital. Some analysts say social unrest has replaced Islamist militants as the biggest threat to stability. Protesters spent much of the day hurling debris down onto police from high ground on the edge of a shantytown. As night fell, police moved in to try to disperse them but were driven back by a hail of bricks, stones and petrol bombs. The police officer who was seriously hurt fell from a rock face as he tried to climb up to the protesters, and was taken away in an ambulance. Security sources said several other officers had been hurt. The clashes broke out on Monday when some residents of the shantytown, in the Diar Echams district of Algiers, protested that they had not been included on a list of people who qualified for re-housing. There was a lull on Tuesday evening after the police's failed assault but the protesters and police were in a tense stand-off on opposite sides of a road. Algeria is an OPEC member and the world's fourth biggest exporter of natural gas. After more than a decade of conflict between security forces and Islamist fighters, the violence has subsided sharply in the past few years. Many people in the former French colony of 35 million have now switched their focus to bread-and-butter issues, expressing frustration at the lack of jobs and housing. "The current government has failed to solve social problems," said Mohamed Lagab, an Algerian political analyst. "The unrest in Diar Echams is just an alarm bell." The government has spent billions of dollars in oil and gas revenues on projects to improve living standards and this year announced it would spend a further $150 billion on modernising the economy and creating jobs.
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20th October 2009 21:56 #7
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Mardi 20 Octobre 2009 -- Plusieurs dizaines de policiers et de manifestants ont été blessés, mardi en début de soirée, dans des affrontements entre la population et les forces de l’ordre à Diar Echems, dans la commune d’El Madania, à Alger, selon des témoins sur place. La majorité des blessés sont des policiers – au moins une quarantaine-, selon des sources concordantes. Plusieurs dizaines de manifestants, essentiellement des jeunes issus du quartier de Diar Echems, ont affronté, pour le deuxième jour consécutif, les forces de police présentes en force sur place. Les affrontements ont repris après que des policiers ont tenté de procéder à des arrestations dans le quartier au lendemain des premières émeutes. Lundi, les premiers affrontements avaient fait plusieurs dizaines de blessés et provoqué une quarantaine d’arrestations parmi les manifestants. Ces émeutes, les premières à Alger depuis plusieurs années, ont éclaté pour des raisons sociales. Les habitants de ce quartier pauvre de la capitale reprochent aux autorités locales de refuser de prendre en charge leurs problèmes liés au logement. Selon nos sources, le wali d’Alger devrait se rendre sur place, mercredi 21 octobre, pour tenter de dialoguer avec la population en colère.







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