Outlawed officials show human rights reality in Algeria.

The Ministerial Decree of 19 January 1997, regarding the obligation of safety belt use excluded from the obligation, cars belonging to the security services including the police and the gendarmerie in addition to cars of firefighters, ambulances as well as cars belonging to companies intervening in electricity and gas dangers. Yet, the reality on the road showed there are categories of professional and social positions taking it easy and themselves as over the law. Reports and facts include Minister, local municipalities representatives as well anti-terror groups as being last on the list of people who respect the decree aimed at protecting citizens’ safety and security.

The Law was issued in respect of human rights without discrimination on race, sex, color or social status or religion. But the picture depicted by Echorouk to reflect the real situation as far as implementing the law equally among all categories of citizens was a real nightmare. We have actually scrutinized the highway between Dar El Beida and Zeralda (40 km of Algiers city highway) and discovered the existence of a category of drivers who through away laws and roads regulations with no ethics and the security belt non-implementation was a story in itself as driving and using vehicles belonging to parents who work in state departments has ‘’given the right’’ to so many people to not use the security belt and thus put their lives and others’ at stake.

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The Direction of the National Security, confirming that the law does not exclude any driver to put a belt of security, other than those contained in the above Decree and solely during the time of their service. But it is considered by the Deputy Director in charge of roads and traffic security, Mohammed Tatachke as being more complex than what we may imagine, he told Echorouk “The lack of commitment to use security belts does exist, and the police deals with it according to the law,’’, ‘’ regardless of the status of the driver, adding that the traffic police did not record remnants of this type.

It is worth recalling that the interests committed to the prevention of its elements the use of” mobile “service, but as to the geophare Lights our contact says his department has forbidden the use of mobile phones during the service.