Algerians Flock On Flights To Return Homeland From Tunisia

Dozens of Algerians who are living in Tunisia are stranded since Wednesday in some cities, where a wave of protests erupted since days over the government decision to raise various consumer goods, causing a wave of popular anger and a series of protests that have expanded over the past few days, after the protesters in different parts of the country close the roads with stones and barricades, and set fire to the rubber wheels, which caused the paralysis on the level of many roads and main Tunisian cities, and even on the border with Algeria, like the cities of Sakiat Sidi Youcef and El Kaf, adjacent to the center of the border post with El Hedada in Souk Ahras, eastern Algeria, forcing the Algerian passengers who were traveling to Tunisia to return back and look for other outlets across the border centers in the provinces of Taref and Tebessa (eastern Algeria), and who were coming from Tunisia towards the Algerian territory.

Some Algerians who were on the Tunisian territory, told Echorouk on Wednesday that, as protests and road closures continued to escalate protests, dozens of them were forced to return by plane to the Algerian capital for fear of a security breach in Tunisia, after the death of a protester, after being hit by the Tunisian National Guard by mistake in Tataouine south of the capital Tunis. 

The airport in Carthage in Tunis witnessed a great flock of Algerians who were stranded in the Tunisian territory and who found it difficult to return to Algeria via land transport, where the activity of transporters stopped due to the deteriorating security conditions. 

Algerians flock to Air Algérie and Tunis Airways Agencies to buy seats on planes that are heading for Algeria.

First protests broke out a week ago in some rural areas of Tunisia, as happened in the area of ​​Sakiet Sidi Youssef in the state of Kef, after a young man committed suicide to denounce the difficult social conditions in which his family lives, which prompted the residents of the area to go to the street to protest , before placing a tent and organize a sit in inside it throughout the hours of the day and night, and closed the international road between Algeria and Tunisia, and the regional authorities did not succeed to convince them to turn their position, before the extension of the flames of protests, which accelerated its events and expanded across several Tunisian cities, as it looks like another revolution against the government decision to rise prices in various consumables.