Algeria: Three new immolated by fire, including a woman

Algeria is facing a new attempt to sacrifice. Wednesday, January 19, a father of six has attempted suicide in the town of El Oued, in the far east of Algeria, near the border with Tunisia. Afif Hadri, 37, salesman on the run for three years of food to the central market of the city, had an altercation with a policeman who tried to stop to sell their goods, according to an official directive to combat the trade Informal.

He then doused with gasoline, but was unable to implement his project, because witnesses have prevented. Tuesday evening was a young man who had tried to put an end to his days in the city center of Dellys, in the east. He was in critical condition Wednesday, reported the newspaper El Watan on its website.

The Algerian press has also reported the case of a woman who tried to set themselves on fire Monday. According to local sources, she poured a flammable liquid on the body before attempting to set fire in the middle of communal People's Assembly of the locality of Sidi Ali Benyoub, 450 kilometers southwest of Algiers.

Convinced by a municipal officer to stop his actions, it was nevertheless injured hand. The fifties may have committed this act of desperation after she was denied assistance under the program of rural housing. Recent attempts to carry eight the number of cases of this kind in Algeria. The fifth was that of an unemployed 36-year-old father of six children, who also attempted suicide by fire inside the headquarters of the county council in the region of El Oued near the border with Tunisia.

Since January 12, four other Algerians have made similar attempts. In Algeria, riots against the rise in prices of essential commodities were between 6 and 9 January, five people dead and more than eight hundred wounded. The government then ordered to lower prices on basic foodstuffs. On 17 December, a young Tunisian who authorities had refused a permit to sell on the streets of fruits and vegetables had ended his life in sacrifice by fire.

His death marked the beginning of a popular revolt that forced into exile Tunisian President Ben Ali, in power for twenty-three years.

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