FRANCE-SHOOTING/ALGERIA Police and protesters clash after anti-Charlie Hebdo march
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FRANCE-SHOOTING/ALGERIA Police and protesters clash after anti-Charlie Hebdo march
- Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/ALGERIA Police and protesters clash after anti-Charlie Hebdo march
- Date: 16th January 2015
- Summary: ALGIERS, ALGERIA (JANUARY 16, 2015) (REUTERS) POLICE TRYING TO PUSH BACK PROTESTERS PROTESTERS RUNNING TOWARDS POLICE WHO ARE SWING BATONS AT THEM PROTESTERS CHANTING POLICE PUSHING BACK PROTESTERS POLICE BEATING PROTESTER TO THE GROUND AND SWINGING BATONS AT OTHERS VARIOUS OF POLICE VEHICLE SPRAYING WATER TO DISPERSE PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS AT POLICE POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS VARIOUS OF POLICE AND PROTESTERS CLASHING PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS AT POLICE PROTESTER GETTING ON HIS KNEES AND WAVING AT POLICE / POLICE RUNNING TOWARDS PROTESTERS PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS POLICE RUNNING AFTER PROTESTERS PROTESTERS THROWING ROCKS/ROCK THROWN AT CAMERAMAN
- Embargoed: 31st January 2015 12:00
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- Location: Algeria
- Country: Algeria
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVA1M6D4RJGB2ZGQUNX70PAQUH1X
- Story Text: Police clashed with demonstrators in Algiers on Friday (January 16) after rioting broke out at the end of a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Several officers were injured during the violence, with small groups of protesters hurling rocks, fireworks and bottles at the security forces around the waterfront area of the Algerian capital.
Dozens of people were arrested, and two Islamist leaders, Ali Belhadj and Hamadache Zeraoui, were detained for illegally organising a march in Algiers where demonstrations are still banned, a security source said.
Hundreds of people, including women and children, had earlier marched peacefully through the capital chanting "God is Great", singing and waving placards saying "I am Mohammad" in French and Arabic to protest against Charlie Hebdo's cartoons.
A trio of Islamist gunmen killed 17 people last week in France before they themselves were shot dead in three days of violence that began with an attack on the satirical magazine, long known for its cartoons which lampoon Islam and other religions, political leaders and celebrities.
Charlie Hebdo's first edition since the attack, published on Wednesday (January 14), featured another cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its front cover that critics saw as a new provocation.
Two French-born brothers of Algerian origin shot dead staff of the magazine in last week's assault.
Algeria suffered a bloody war with Islamist militants in the 1990s when around 200,000 people were killed during a conflict where whole villages were sometimes massacred and extremists fought to create an Islamic state.
Before the war, Islamist political movements would organise marches of tens of thousands of people to hear speeches in the capital. The army cancelled 1991 elections that the Islamists looked set to win, pushing the country into nearly a decade of conflict. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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