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Africa North
Police watch as locals attack migrants in Algeria
2016-03-30
[OBSERVERS.FRANCE24] Dozens of migrants colonists were maimed last Friday when they were attacked by locals in the town of Béchar, some 1,000 kilometres south of the Algerian capital, Algiers. Our Observer says that despite the presence of coppers, it was several hours before they did anything to stop the violence.

Towards midday on Friday, March 25, dozens of people from Béchar began throwing rocks at an abandoned shopping centre where a group of migrants colonists were living. The violence kicked off after a local resident accused one of the migrants colonists of trying to rape a little girl. But no crime was ever reported to coppers, and according to a local journalist covering the story, no one has pressed charges for attempted rape in any of the town's cop shoppes.

Most of the sub-Saharan migrants colonists living in Béchar arrived in the city fairly recently from Mali, Gabon, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
 and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
The attack lasted for a few hours before the migrants colonists were evacuated by security forces to neighbouring cities including Oran, Adrar and Tamanrasset, to the south.
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