Algeria: the crowd for the tenth consecutive Friday of protests against the regime

The streets of central Algiers were once again black on Friday, the tenth consecutive protest across Algeria, against the figures of the "system" who remained in power after the resignation on April 2 of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

High-profile events in many parts of the country

The important mobilization - impossible to evaluate precisely in the absence of official figures -, also noted in other cities of the country, seems to show that the protesters remain determined to obtain satisfaction of their priority claims: the departure of the figures of the Bouteflika regime and the establishment of transitional institutions. "No half-revolution," headlined the weekend edition of the daily El Watan , a call to continue demonstrating until the departure of the "system" in its entirety.

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Like every Friday, the crossroads of the Grande Poste, emblematic building of the demonstrations in Algiers, was crowded and the procession stretched for several kilometers along various axes. Protesters have accused the security forces of having set up filter barriers to prevent the protesters from accessing the capital. The Algerian procession dispersed calmly at the end of the day. The official APS news agency, which reported on protests in at least 36 of the country's 48 regions, did not identify any incidents in the country.

Algerians demonstrate in front of the Algiers Main Post for a 10th consecutive Friday of protest in the capital # AFPpic.twitter.com / f2Hzfkvgpp

"Justice must stop all thieves"

"You have looted the country, thieves!", Chanted the demonstrators, after a week marked by the dismissal of prominent figures of power, the announcement of prosecutions in corruption cases and the incarceration of wealthy businessmen accused of embezzlement. "Justice must stop all the thieves", could it read on a sign, while the protest denounces, since February 22, the troubled links between the Bouteflika presidency and the "oligarchs", businessmen having made fortune thanks to huge public contracts.

In Algiers, a "force of interposition" citizen was given the mission to prevent clashes between police and demonstrators and maintain the calm that is the strength of the Algerian demonstrations https://t.co/bH0z45CESL#AFPpic.twitter .com / c98S4D5OkJ

Three brothers, wealthy players in the construction industry, members of the Kouninef family linked to the Bouteflika clan, were placed in detention on remand during the week, notably for alleged acts of "trading in influence" and alleged irregularities in public contracts. In the wake of the dismissal of the CEO of Sonatrach, public giant of hydrocarbons center in recent years of corruption scandals, the justice also said to investigate Chekib Khalil, former Minister of Energy close Bouteflika and a time continued in Algeria for corruption before the prosecution is dropped.

In addition, the detention in custody, also this week, of Issad Rebrab, first fortune of Algeria and boss of the conglomerate Cevital, the country's first private employer, which had relations notoriously strained with the entourage of Bouteflika, sowed doubts among the protesters about the real objectives of these investigations. In a note published Friday, the International Crisis Group (ICG) think tank sees the current anti-corruption campaign as a means for the regime to try to "divide" the protest movement, while "settling internal accounts."

Especially since the power does not give in on the essential of the claims: Abdelkader Bensalah, apparatchik having accompanied Bouteflika during his 20 years in power, is always Acting Head of State and Noureddine Bedoui, another faithful devoted, always Prime Minister.