After 24 weeks of protest, they were only 500 students to demonstrate in the streets of Algiers, Tuesday, August 6. The protesters reject the dialogue advocated by the government to end the political crisis born of the unprecedented dispute that Algeria has been experiencing since February.
The students gathered at the Place des Martyrs in central Algiers before marching to the Grand Post, the epicenter of the protest since February 22, which led to the resignation of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on April 2nd.
The demonstrators, who displayed a large banner on which was written "no dialogue with the gang", marched in the middle of a strong police deployment. No incidents were recorded.
"Shame on you"
The protesters chanted "shame on you, we are asked to dialogue with a gang", in reference to the forum of dialogue designated by the power to conduct consultations on the terms of a presidential rejected by the challenge.
"Our demands can not be debated because they are clear, starting with the departure (of Acting President Abdelkader) Bensalah, and none of us have chosen those who speak on our behalf," told AFP, Chakib, a student at the University of Algiers.
"The people who take to the streets every Tuesday and every Friday are not stupid to accept being represented by these people," said Abderrahmane, a student of foreign languages.
Call for "civil disobedience"
The students also resumed the call for "civil disobedience", chanted for the first time last Friday during the weekly demonstration in Algiers, after the refusal by the army of "appeasement measures", such as the release of people arrested in connection with the dispute.
Strongly contested since its inception at the end of July, the forum for dialogue has increased last Thursday the distrust of it by renouncing the "appeasement measures" she had herself required before "any dialogue".
With AFP