Algiers Chaotic Markets to be eliminated before the end of 2012

Security services of Algiers started the implementation of the governor’s instruction, Mohammad Kabir Adou, on the elimination of all chaotic markets, as the services of public security in coordination with the judicial police and teams of investigations and intervention, launched a campaign of awarness which aimed to open dialogue with young owners of tables for junk selling in the market of Belcourt on Tuesday, before moving it definitively, in response to the calls of the region’s population who expressed their discontent against the backdrop of fights, assaults and high crime due to the overwhelming crowds.

In this regard, reliable sources told Echorouk that, the security services will eliminate all the chaotic markets and anarchical constructions before the year 2013, as they prepared all the plans in coordination with local authorities who oversee the operations.

Same sources added that the security services will continue the elimination of chaotic markets downtown Algiers, by eliminating anarchist traders in the market of liberals, and then the process will be the largest of its kind, as it will touch on the elimination of anarchist traders in the market of Ali Mallah, in the coming days, before heading to markets in the east of Algiers, and then markets of the west and south, passing through the market of Bab El Oued and Boumati, which is the largest chaotic market in the capital.

Security services will also control the owners of shops who offer their goods at the level of sidewalks and roads, as authorities have issued local decision to ban the selling of goods on the sidewalks, and prevent activity of vendors in sidewalks, who are present across various public places including the roads leading to the daily markets, the main streets and stations of public transport for travelers, to reduce the phenomenon of parallel trade in all their forms and regulate the activity of traders who have legal shops, by preventing them also from the monopoly of sidewalks.

Local authorities are expected to eliminate all markets according to a comprehensive program for all black points in parallel with the elimination of chaotic houses.