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The teachers who were demonstrating faced the forces of order. September 5, 2019 Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP

It is a hectic school year in Jordan where thousands of teachers demonstrated Thursday, September 5, to demand a salary increase. They gathered near the prime minister's office in the capital Amman, but the security forces, deployed in many parts of the city, intervened very quickly to disperse the protesters of the violence.

From our correspondent in Amman, Jerome Boruszewski

A group of teachers all wearing white caps and facing them columns of gendarmes helmeted and armed. Gendarmes who suddenly snap their batons on their shields to roll back the protesters.

Then the police load, beat, and stop some protesters who drag their feet in the crowd. Anès teaches the Arabic language, he is ulcerated by this violence. " I have a master's degree and I earn 400 dinars a month [about 500 euros]. How can I do? One wonders where the money has gone from our country. There is corruption . "

Teachers and their union demand a 50% salary increase.

Mustafa is struggling to make ends meet. " We have to do another job to get out of it. I buy and sell cars, but it's not my job. I'm a teacher ! I just want a good salary, and they, they bring the police to defend against me? I am a citizen, I want my rights, that's all .

Jordan's teachers' union has called for a strike next Sunday.

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