.- Several people were injured in clashes between police and protesters in Algeria, where thousands of people take part in a protest to demand changes to the regime of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, as could verify Efe. The protests have spread to other areas of the country, Bejaia, Constantine, Anaba and Oran, Algeria's second city, where there were also several injured and dozens arrested, sources told Efe of the National Coordinator for Democracy and Change (NCDC), convener of the demonstrations.
In the concentration of capital, the police attacked the nearly three thousand people gathered in the square near May Day, after the protesters broke the security cordon and tried to move to the place of beginning of the march . Police used batons to chase the protesters and they responded by throwing stones.
There were exchanges of blows and, after a moment of extreme tension, the demonstrators managed to get agents back to the surrounding streets, where they now remain focused. According to the opposition Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD), the clashes resulted in several injuries, and Efe could be confirmed.
Among the protesters, there are at least fifteen women from the Mothers of the Disappeared in Algeria during the mid-90's, with photos of their children, who used to claim the merger to the government about their relatives, have no news from more than ten years. With shouts of "Bouteflika get out" or "We're sick of this power," the demonstrators, many of them young people from all walks of life, carrying placards with slogans like "down the system" or "we want a country run by young people and not the old.
" The merger has raised great expectations in the country, especially after the collapse yesterday of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. About 30 thousand policemen have been mobilized, many of them transferred from other regions of the country in civilian buses to control the situation in Algiers. 
In the concentration of capital, the police attacked the nearly three thousand people gathered in the square near May Day, after the protesters broke the security cordon and tried to move to the place of beginning of the march . Police used batons to chase the protesters and they responded by throwing stones.
There were exchanges of blows and, after a moment of extreme tension, the demonstrators managed to get agents back to the surrounding streets, where they now remain focused. According to the opposition Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD), the clashes resulted in several injuries, and Efe could be confirmed.
Among the protesters, there are at least fifteen women from the Mothers of the Disappeared in Algeria during the mid-90's, with photos of their children, who used to claim the merger to the government about their relatives, have no news from more than ten years. With shouts of "Bouteflika get out" or "We're sick of this power," the demonstrators, many of them young people from all walks of life, carrying placards with slogans like "down the system" or "we want a country run by young people and not the old.
" The merger has raised great expectations in the country, especially after the collapse yesterday of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. About 30 thousand policemen have been mobilized, many of them transferred from other regions of the country in civilian buses to control the situation in Algiers.
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