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Suite: The day of [February 19, 2011
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(Algeria) After the collapse yesterday of Egyptian President Mubarak , commentators ask: who's next? - It will not, at present, around the Algerian President Bouteflika who, after having held ministerial positions since independence in 1962, meets the highest offices of state since 1999. - Dead Man Walking , held January 22, 2011 by the RCD (Rally for Culture and Democracy), had been prevented by a large police with checkered Algiers and prohibits access to the city to those who came from outside. This morning 12 February 2011, the situation has not changed, as reported by El Watan (list in right column): Algiers is under police control. The main boulevards and intersections in the capital were yesterday under heavy police surveillance in anticipation of today's popular march, which was called the National Coordination for Change and Democracy in Algeria (NCCD). - It's a real deployment of terror. The city was deserted, leaving the streets only to gun sprinkler trucks, vans, Nissan and police armed with Kalashnikovs. - By the morning of yesterday, regiments of the Republican Unity Security took a stand instead of May 1, while other police vehicles were stationed at the entrance to the newsagent Tahar Djaout. - A few meters to the boulevard Hassiba Ben Bouali, is an impressive safety device that has been established. Thus, all access to the site from 1 May are under the control of law enforcement, with a view to prevent the demonstrators from accessing it. The show is the same at the Great Post, where trucks and vans of police took up positions on the esplanade. In cons-low Sofia garden was requisitioned by the police. Deploying security is even more visible at the headquarters of the wilaya of Algiers, around the Nation Council. It is particularly significant in the Square Port Said and the Martyrs' Square to the point that people feel under emergency rule. "Looks like we are at war," thundered a passerby. Indeed, it is a "war" against Algerians who want peaceful expression of their opinions on political and social situation increasingly untenable. How else to explain this display of force. Even Didouche Mourad street, usually spared this kind of demonstration, was yesterday, "blue" by the heavy police presence. - From the Sacred Heart until the place Audin, police on foot and by car make round trips by scanning all the lanes. On the heights of the capital, police presence is more visible, especially in El Biar, not far from the party offices of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) and down the street Soudaini Boudjemaâ, not far from headquarters the party of the Socialist Forces Front, where three police vans control the intersections leading to El Mouradia. - The same device is also deployed the entry of the capital. All along the highway east of Algiers, dams police are strengthened. In El Hamiz, Bab Ezzouar and Stream, the checkpoints are already doing the filtering of vehicles from the wilaya in eastern countries. At the dam "the Banana", a policeman with a camera films the vehicles outright. It speaks of more than 25,000 police were mobilized to quell the march which will be attended by the opposition parties, unions and other civil society organizations.

[11:00] The paper reports also arrests and police brutality protesters who bludgeon. Access to the site is currently difficult or impossible. - The World wrote: Shortly before the rally scheduled for 11 am, clashes were reported near the Place de la Concorde (better known under its former name of a place st
-May). Several protesters chanted
"Bouteflika outside" have indeed been arrested by police. On Friday, police responded with force against demonstrators waving the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. The Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD opposition party of 19 MPs who called for demonstrations) reported "injured and at least a dozen arrests" . [11:10]
Hundreds of students join the demonstrators in place from 1 May to Algiers. Each time the protesters trying to force the security cordon, they were beaten while handcuffed and driven away. The pro Bouteflika continue their provocations against demonstrators. The police let them (El Watan).
[11:20] thugs rounded up to the cons march attacked Amazigh Kateb
(El Watan).

[12:00] Now, the site of El Watan

is completely blocked. The World
has
an online newsfeed . Here's the latest news from this feed:
Ali Belhadj, a leader of the Islamist hello Front (FIS), the dissolved by the Algerian authorities, participates in the walk. - Among those arrested are Fodil Boumal, a founder of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD), and Maazouz Othman, a member of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD). - A correspondent Al Jazeera said that the chain will struggle to cover the events in Algeria because it is not welcome on Algerian territory. -

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