security forces prevent protest of Posts' Workers

Security forces surrounded, on Sunday morning, hundreds of protesters from the posts’ workers in front of the Central Post in Algiers.

Policemen prevented thousands of protesters from going on marches, but the protest turned into a sit-in where workers were singing joyfully and raised slogans demanding the departure of the General Manager, and the investigation in the funds of the institution.

Hundreds of posts’ workers gathered in the Square of the Central Post of Algiers, where Echorouk interviewed protesters who came from the capital and other Algerian cities, including Boumerdes, Tipaza, Blida, Bejaia, Oran, Relizane, Constantine, Jijel, Ain Defla and other regions, where they were carrying banners condemning the policy of the

General Directorate, demanding the departure of the General Manager and responding to the demands that were filed.

The protesters told Echorouk that the syndicate should notice a change, asserting that there should be no negotiations with the General Manager, and that the dialogue would be with the sector’s Minister Moussa Ben Hammadi.

Security forces, which strengthened its presence in the place and rushed to contain the Central Square, and worked on keeping workers in the arena to prevent them from going on a march towards the Ministry headquarters, without recording any clashes between workers and security forces, which merely monitored protesters, as security agents

also found some difficulties in the management of traffic at the Central Post, as the roads adjacent to it noticed great suffocation, and the National Security’s helicopter remained overhead to monitor the incident’s developments.

Angry workers returned again to expel a number of high officials in the post from windows of clearance in the building next door, who compensated officers strikers accidentally to break the strike, and dozens of citizens lined before the automatic distributor of banknotes outdoor of the Post, where money was pumped out at night so that citizens can get their money, while many citizens expressed discontent and dissatisfaction due to the continuing strike, as an elderly from Bab El Oued neighborhood said: “Since four days ago I could not pull

one centime. I am living with four days ago, and I do not know when this strike will end and with it my suffering..It is enough…”.