[Ennahar] A new march of opponents, the ninth since February at the invitation of one faction of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy in Algeria (CNDC), was prevented by police Saturday in Algiers according to the press.A few dozen demonstrators gathered in Place du 1er Mai in the center of the capital, tried to march to the Place des Martyrs, a distance of nearly three miles, but were blocked by police.
Over a hundred coppers were deployed on the Place du 1er mai and surrounding streets. The demonstrators chanted "Djazaïr horra Democratia" (Algeria free and democratic) and carried placards on which were written: "system go out" or "for the fall of the regime."
Among them, the president of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), Ali Yahia Abdenour, and leaders of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD secular opposition).
This wing of the CNDC, led by the RCD, has followed its motto of event "every Saturday" for a change of political system while the second wing emerging from a split within the movement, born in January in the wake riots against high prices, refuses to protest in the street.
Since the riots, protests and social policies have proliferated in Algeria. During this wave of protest, about thirty people tried to set themselves on fire, five of whom died from their injuries, according to the Algerian press.