The Algerian riot police charged today with rubber bullets and tear gas against youths in a poor district of central Algiers that confronted the officers to protest the eviction of some homes deemed illegal. In the clashes have been dozens of injuries among officers and protesters, who threw stones and burned at least a police transport vehicle, after hundreds of riot police surrounded the neighborhood now maintained.
Police sources said at least 50 officers were injured and according to several residents of the neighborhood at least 70 youths were also injured. Islam, a young man from the neighborhood, said a six month old baby was killed by breathing in tear gas, although authorities have not provided, for the moment, no official count of casualties from the fighting.
This witness also said that a teenager lost an eye after being hit by a rubber ball. The clashes erupted after police evicted earlier in the day by force scores of people who lived more of the modest one-story houses with corrugated iron roofs that populate much of the neighborhood. Subsequently, two large bulldozers knocked down dozens of these houses, which sparked fury across the district "Climat de France, located in the heart of the city and not far from the Algerian Ministry of Defense.
Hundreds of neighborhood residents took to the streets to mount roadblocks and dealing with hundreds of riot police deployed around the area of demolition. The protesters, mostly young men, burned tires and attacked several police vehicles attacked and burned a large police transport truck.
Many youth groups scattered in different parts of the neighborhood, totally angered by the demolition of homes, agreed in their threats that tonight will be "hell to the police." 
Police sources said at least 50 officers were injured and according to several residents of the neighborhood at least 70 youths were also injured. Islam, a young man from the neighborhood, said a six month old baby was killed by breathing in tear gas, although authorities have not provided, for the moment, no official count of casualties from the fighting.
This witness also said that a teenager lost an eye after being hit by a rubber ball. The clashes erupted after police evicted earlier in the day by force scores of people who lived more of the modest one-story houses with corrugated iron roofs that populate much of the neighborhood. Subsequently, two large bulldozers knocked down dozens of these houses, which sparked fury across the district "Climat de France, located in the heart of the city and not far from the Algerian Ministry of Defense.
Hundreds of neighborhood residents took to the streets to mount roadblocks and dealing with hundreds of riot police deployed around the area of demolition. The protesters, mostly young men, burned tires and attacked several police vehicles attacked and burned a large police transport truck.
Many youth groups scattered in different parts of the neighborhood, totally angered by the demolition of homes, agreed in their threats that tonight will be "hell to the police."
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