E 'revolt across the Maghreb. It aggravates the death toll from clashes broke out against the economic crisis and unemployment. In Tunisia, between Saturday and Sunday twenty demonstrators were killed in two cities, Tala and Kasserine, in clashes with security forces. Many of the wounded. According to a witness to the victims of Tala - between 17 and 30 years - were killed by the police who opened fire on demonstrators in the city center.Six seriously injured were transferred to a hospital in Kasserine, the capital of the region. Also in Tunisia on Saturday, a street vendor set himself on fire in the market of Sidi Bouzid, December 17 where another trader had made a similar gesture, then dying for burns. The act gave the man a wave of protests.
Saturday was the turn of the 50-years old, married and father: he poured gasoline and set on fire, then was taken away by ambulance, his condition is serious. The decisive day in Algeria today to see if the measures announced in the evening by the government for an "urgent" reduction in prices of oil and sugar, they will appease the minds of the young protesters.
In the four days of clashes recorded a little 'all over the country, about a thousand people, mostly minors, were arrested, reported the Minister of the Interior, Daho Ould Kable, was quoted today by the Algerian press. Confirmed the deaths of three demonstrators, while 826 people, said Ould Kable, including 763 police officers, were injured.
According to the daily El Watan, a fourth protester died in M'Sila. Quiet night in Algiers, although some incidents, El Watan reported, took place yesterday afternoon and evening in the eastern suburbs, in Bordj El Kiffan and Ain Taya, where protesters have blocked main streets with barricades.
Clashes also took place in Kabylie, Tizi Ouzou in the capital, near Bejaia, Boumerdes and Bouira, but also to Tebessa and Annaba (east). For the first time last night, young people also took to the streets and Maghnia Bechar, along the border with Morocco.
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