Coordination of municipal guards seek meeting with PM Sellal over grievances

The Coordination of municipal guards in Algeria is seeking an early encounter with Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal in a bid to express a host of outstanding grievances related to their deserved social status to which the authorities concerned have so far turned a deaf ear.

The disgruntled municipal guards affirm they’ve been left in the lurch with their legitimate rights being flouted by those who are supposed to back them up despite their relentless fight alongside the security forces against the heinous scourge of terrorism.

They argued that 4.600 municipal guards were killed as part of the anti-terrorism struggle during the national tragedy in the nineties.

The claims upheld by the municipal guards include among other things, early retirement pensions, the granting of rural housing, retaining of current wages and other social benefits in addition to the official reinstatement within this body of all those municipal guards scrapped from the rolls in recent years.