Cafes did not close doors until the dawn: Thus, Algerians lived Tunisia’s Ben Ali escape amid unrest

How many Algerians visited Tunisia? How many couples spent their honeymoons in Tunisian tourist vehicles? How many Tunisians married with Algerians? Certainly they are millions, and for this reason Algerian citizens showed a great interest in Tunisian events.

All Algerians are keen to watch and hear news about Tunisia and hail the victory achieved by Tunisians. They lived it with their ears, eyes and hearts until reaching the final episode with the fall of the hero and victory of people.

Echorouk came out on the streets on the night Tunisia’s Ben Ali flees amid unrest, his escape was followed by people fleeing to their homes, the vacuum is strong “Silence, we are now in Tunisia”, all shops were closed except Internet Cafes  which stayed open until the down..Tunisians are convinced that the fall of their president was a direct consequence of technological revolution called Internet and Algerians have put their hands on the shoulder of their brothers in the Algerian-Tunisian forums, blogs and various websites.

As usual, Algerian citizens waited in front of their national TV channel which was out of subject, and preferred presenting some translated series on Friday evening, knowing that no one is watching it including its workers, so Algerians resort to other channels, which were too many, most notably as usual Al Jazeera and Al Arabia, as well as French channels like LCI and other.

Departure of the Tunisian President on Friday night pushed Algerians to stay tuned until the dawn, and all cities, streets and villages were almost empty because everyone spent a night in front of television watching events of the Tunisian neighbors and even Echorouk media follow-up on Friday found a large number of readers who rushed to buy it from various points.

Algerians talk on Friday was fully Tunisian with fear and hope of the future in the closest country to Algeria, proved by a western study which shows that there have never been such an amazing ties between two Arab countries in history because of the strong and solid relations between Tunisians and Algerians. Women were talking about the “Hairdresser who ruled the Tunisian ruler” Leila Trabelsi, children were watching scenes of protests on TV channels, and men were reading the cup of the future.