By RFPosted on 25-08-2019Modified on 25-08-2019 at 00:42
Security failures, bad organization, critics have been firing for two days in Algeria after the death of five young people at the entrance of rapper Soolking's concert Thursday night. A national drama that has not gone without effect. The Minister of Culture and the Director General of National Security have not been in office since Saturday.
The sanctions started on Friday with the dismissal of the director of the National Copyright Office who was organizing the concert. An event that was held in a stadium obviously too small and too old, with access routes unsuited to the number of spectators.
The organization was under the tutelage of the Minister of Culture. Meriem Mederci resigned on Saturday. A few hours later, the authorities announced the replacement of the Director General of the National Security which oversees the various police services. No official explanation has been given. But everything suggests that he too lost his job after the deadly scramble .
Will there be other sanctions? On social networks, Algerians do not flee. " There was a failure, a multi-storey malfunction of the state building. Who bears the responsibility? Asked the daily El Watan Saturday.
The shock wave has even splashed the rapper who is not spared by the criticism of Internet users. For lack of being informed at the time of the facts, he continued his concert. Since then, he has expressed immeasurable sadness in a text of several lines. To his condolences Soolking today added a symbolic gesture: he emptied his Instagram account, leaving only one image, that of a prayer to the dead
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