- Title: Algeria: Police and protesters scuffle as demonstrations continue
- Date: 8th October 2019
- Summary: ALGIERS, ALGERIA (OCTOBER 8, 2019) (REUTERS) SCUFFLES BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND POLICE / POLICE ATTEMPTING TO ARREST PROTESTER POLICE SURROUNDING PROTESTERS FEMALE PROTESTERS SURROUNDED BY POLICE, HOLDING ALGERIAN FLAGS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING (Arabic) ''OH, THE SHAME'' AROUND POLICE VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES / POLICE ATTEMPTING TO ARREST PROTESTER SCUFFLES BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF POLICE AND PROTESTERS GATHERED ON STREET POLICE STANDING GUARD NEAR PROTESTERS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PROTESTER, SALIM (NO SURNAME GIVEN), SAYING: "This is el Gaid Salah's call escorting the protests, repressing the demonstrations, arresting the protesters and citizens, even old men and women are being arrested." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING (Arabic): 'WE DON'T WANT GAID SALEH' (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PROTESTER, LEILA (NO SURNAME GIVEN), SAYING: "We went out against the elections of December 12th, I swear that we won't let them happen. We don't want this regime, the military regime has to fall, we want a democratic free civil country." PROTESTERS CHANTING (Arabic): ''NO ELECTIONS WITH THE GANG'' PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING
- Embargoed: 22nd October 2019 19:37
- Keywords: Algeria Algiers protests Africa
- Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- City: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
- Country: Algeria
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
- Reuters ID: LVA001B08NFWN
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Algerians took to the streets on Tuesday (October 8), demanding the removal of the ruling elite, and denounced a heavy police presence amidst multiple scuffles and arrests.
Protesters rejected the "escorting" of demonstrations by police, saying that security forces were "repressing" them as well as arresting citizens.
The demonstration in the capital Algiers followed an announcement that a presidential election would be held in December.
A prominent independent cleric last week urged people to vote in a December election backed by the army but opposed by the protest movement.
The fatwa, or Islamic legal ruling, represent the first significant comment on the months-long political crisis by major independent clerics, and may influence conservative Algerians.
The army, which has emerged as the most powerful player in Algerian politics, sees December's presidential election as the only way to quiet the protests and end the constitutional limbo that has prevailed since president Abdelaziz Bouteflika stood down in April.
Algeria plunged into crisis in February when massive protests erupted to stop Bouteflika running for a fifth term in an election that was scheduled for July.
He resigned on April 2 and the election was postponed.
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