The Algerian Chief of Staff orders the ban on the transfer of protesters to the capital

Algerian army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Kayed Saleh said Wednesday he had instructed security forces to "confront" buses and vehicles carrying Fridays protesters from outside the capital, "arresting them" and "imposing fines and imposing fines on their owners."

Demonstrators swept the streets of Algiers every Friday for 30 weeks to demand the departure of all elements of the regime, after they succeeded in getting President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign.

"We have noticed on the ground that there are parties of the gang's bad intentions to make freedom of movement an excuse to justify its dangerous behavior, which is to create all the factors that disturb the comfort of the citizens," said Kaid Saleh, during inspecting military forces in Tamanrasset. Bringing them from different states of the homeland to the capital. "

He pointed out that the aim "to inflate the human numbers in public squares that raise slogans are innocent and innocent," saying that "the real purpose" is to "cover the national public opinion with these deceptive methods to make itself a trumpet lying and fading in the name of the Algerian people."

"Accordingly, instructions have been given to the National Gendarmerie, in order to strictly address these actions, through the literal application of the laws in force, including the arrest and seizure of vehicles and buses used for these purposes and the imposition of fines on their owners."

The announcement came three days after Algerian interim President Abdelkader Bensalah set December 12 as the date for presidential elections.

In his remarks today, Qaid Saleh stressed that the conditions for holding the presidential elections scheduled for December 12 next, in an atmosphere of transparency, after the amendment of the electoral law, and the installation of a higher election commission.

He affirmed that all the appropriate conditions for conducting this election in an atmosphere of trust and transparency have been achieved through the formation of the National Authority, the election of its president and the inauguration of all its 50 members, among the national competencies attested to by integrity and sincerity.

On the other hand, the protesters refuse to hold elections under the current government, demanding the dismantling of the system inherited from Bouteflika's 20 years of rule.