Police in Algeria and Tunisia are trigger happy. Proof of this is that the manifestations of the night from Friday to Saturday claimed the first killed in Algeria in Tunisia while four other gunshot victims were added to the list of victims. The violence of the clashes of the last four days in Algeria balance gives an idea offered yesterday by the head of the Interior, Dahou Ould Kabli, the station Chaîne 3: two dead and 400 wounded, of which 300 are police and gendarmes , which must be added many detainees, the minister refused to give a number of youth arrested for vandalism, and damage to property.Yesterday at noon was resumed for a fifth day riots in several Algerian cities. Kabli confirmed that a 18 year old died in the region of Msila, 300 kilometers southeast of Algiers, when police tried to repel the "attempted assault to the police station." The second died, aged 32, was found on a street in Bou Smail, 50 km west of Algiers, "shot in the head," the minister said.
Agence France Presse said, citing medical sources, who was hit in the face by a tear gas grenade. Regueb in neighboring Tunisia and Saida, in the center of the country, indicate that the shooting of the police wounded at least four protesters, of which three would be admitted. Two protesters shot and wounded on Christmas Eve died a few days later.
Another salesman Tunisian Moncef Ben K, 50, was also hospitalized after being slain yesterday in the market of Sidi Bouzid following the example of 26 year old was burned there, to bonzo on 17 December. His gesture was the spark that triggered a wave of protests across the country yesterday received the unexpected support of the Tunisian General Labour Union, the union alone.
Its general secretary, Abid Brigui went on the balcony of his headquarters in the Place Mohamed Ali, and told the crowd gathered there that your system supported the "legitimate" demands of the people. "It is unacceptable to condemn the movement," he said before hundreds of union Brigui surrounded by riot police, who did not intervene.
"It's not normal to respond with bullets," he shouted to applause. The protests in Tunisia are less violent than in Algeria, where recall that in October 1988, ended one-party regime, the National Liberation Front, but not before 500 people charged. In neither of the two countries have dyes Islamist demonstrations.
The Algerian Interior Minister himself acknowledged that the unrest caused in theory by higher prices for some commodities, "are not related to any economic problem." However, the Algerian government announced yesterday a reduction of taxes on imports of certain foodstuffs. "The Algerian crisis is primarily a political crisis," said the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), the oldest member of the Algerian opposition party to the Socialist International.
"It is the sense of injustice" which encourages young people to the streets, says the FFS in a statement released yesterday. "The vast majority of people lack confidence in their leaders," he adds. "She is convinced that no other channel that violence to be heard" by the authorities. The state of emergency was declared in Algeria 19 years ago to combat radical Islam since the demonstrations are prohibited.
To repression in the Maghreb and the European Union governments and political parties in southern Europe are silent. Thus with regard to Algeria and Tunisia, whose regime is much more authoritative than the Algerian, to the point of trying to establish a rail on Internet censorship, and their opponents in the street much more peaceful young Algerians.
Yet there are far more dead and wounded by police gunfire in Tunisia than in Algeria. The Constitutional Democratic Grouping, the hegemonic party, led by Tunisian President Ben Ali, a member of the Socialist International, and yet none of their European counterparts have been asked, for example, his expulsion from the organization.
The PSOE is not pronounced, while the human rights secretary of the French Socialists, pouri Amirshahi-not the party leadership as a whole, issued a statement condemning the "brutal repression." As happened with the military coup in Mauritania in 2008, events in Tunisia have shown the exact opposite approach of the U.S.
and southern Europe on human rights in North Africa. The State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley, said Friday that the day before the Tunisian ambassador in Washington had been called to request the Government of Tunisia to "respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully." He also moved the concern about the interference of the authorities in online social networks to curtail the freedom of those who use them.
When Crowley spoke in Washington, French Foreign Minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, received in Paris with his Tunisian counterpart, Kamel Morjane. "There was a statement, not a single microphone output," noted the French public broadcaster RFI. "It was a quiet visit," he concluded. In Madrid and Rome, two other European capitals related to Tunisia, is also silent.
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