(MENAFN- The Peninsula) About 300 Algerian police officers marched through Algiers yesterday in a rare public protest by security forces to show solidarity with a police demonstration over working conditions and riots in a southern city.
Protests by public service employees are common in Algeria but security forces rarely take to the streets.
The officers, from a riot unit, marched in their blue uniforms towards the downtown area of the capital. Police officers had already taken to the streets in the southern Algerian desert town of Ghardaia on Monday to demonstrate after clashes in the region between Arabs and Berbers.
Riots broke out between the two communities near Ghardaia, with two people killed and businesses torched, the official APS news agency and local media reported. Youths from the two communities threw stones and petrol bombs and also set fire to several businesses, according to APS and Algerian media reports. Several policemen were also injured. The area had been tense since police arrested a group of young men last week for suspected involvement in previous clashes.
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