Demonstrators, many of them wearing the national football team’s kit, poured onto the streets following weekly midday prayers, despite a heavy security presence.
Bouteflika’s departure on April 2 failed to stem the protest movement, which has continued to demand the departure of key regime figures and an overhaul of the North African country’s political system.Retired protester Amar, 71, held up a sign reading “today we will party twice. We’ll win the cup and topple the gang!” — referring to Bouteflika-era officials still in office.
An uninterrupted row of police vehicles lined a major avenue in Algiers, severely reducing the space for protest marches, butAs kickoff loomed in Cairo for Algeria’s bid to lift the African Cup for the first time in 29 years, free public buses waited to ferry fans to the capital’s July 5 Stadium, where the final is to be shown on a big screen.
Former cabinet minister Amar Ghoul was placed in preventive detention on Monday, state media reported.
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