4,500 Tonic’s employees in the street

The head of the Algerian League for Human Rights, hocine Zehouane Wednesday qualified the situation prevailing in the giant paper group “Tonic” as a dangerous slide, calling on the Algerian president to intervene to stop the “massacre”.

• Talking on a conference call at the league’s HQ here in Algiers, the professor Zehoune declared that the legal procedures decided by the liquidator to forbid the general managers’ group along with his assistants entrance to their offices, as an arbitrary action.
• He added that” the use of security forces in this context was illegal because this decision has to be ordered by a judge.” But he denied any attempt to mix his association in this case saying that he was only referring to the legal incoherencies in the case.
• Various managers of the group decide to resign as reaction against what they consider as a pure “witch hunting” and deliberate destruction of group they worked for a decade to build.