A man of about thirty years tried on Sunday who caught fire to the Ministry of Justice in Algiers to protest against an “injustice” of which he considers himself a victim, according to a video that has gone viral on social networks and a local medium in a country where this type of act is unusual.
Originally from Fronda, near Tiet, 340 kilometers west of Algiers, Faouzi Zegout walked to the ministry against which he sprayed with gasoline in the intention of mixing.
The agents responsible for building security, equipped with surveillance cameras, quickly extinguished the flames with a fire extinguisher and the young man only underwent light injuries, according to informed sources.
The Ministry is in the Ultra Second District of El Biar, at the heights of Algiers. “Faouzi Zegout is at the Gaume Brûlés hospital in Algiers” but “Okay,” said Frent News Local Media on Facebook, without citing identifiable sources.
Threatened with ten years in prison for a collection of money aimed at supporting patients
In a video filmed by a friend who fled just after the attempt of immolation, Faouzi Zegout, dressed as for an official ceremony of a white shirt, pants and a black tie, explains his gesture in advance. He says he wants to “attract the attention of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune” to the “injustice” of which he says a victim.
“It was due to a judge of the Court of Fronda who arbitrarily threatened me with a 10 -year prison sentence,” he added.
This association activist indicates that he has recently launched, without the authorities of the authorities, a collection of money to help patients treat themselves. The court had to issue its decision this Sunday.
In this country in North Africa, those under 30 represent more than half of the population, or around 23 million people.
They formed most of the troops of the protesters of the prudemocracy of the Hirak who requested a radical change in the political system in the spring of 2019 and persecuted the power of the president of the time, Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Under the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic that prohibits the meetings and imprisonment of their figures, the Hirak died, but dozens of opponents or defenders of freedoms are still imprisoned.
Source: BFM TV
