On February 22, 2019, Algerians, perceived as resigned and depoliticized, descended en masse in the streets of big cities, especially in Algiers where any demonstration is however prohibited, to oppose the announced will of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, deeply diminished by illness, to run for a fifth term.

Six weeks of increasingly massive demonstrations forced on April 2 the high command of the army, pillar of the regime, to demand and obtain the resignation of the head of state, in power for 20 years.

A year later, while the protest movement continues to demand the end of the "system", interview with journalist Farid Alilat, author of "Bouteflika, the secret story", an investigation exploring the obsessive report that the former Algerian president maintained with the capacity.

With AFP

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