[Ennahar] A member of the party Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD), Tahar Besbes, was maimed in a clash with police during the march organized in Algiers by Algerian opposition against the regime, has reported a member of his party."He was hit in the stomach by a policeman. When falling his head struck the pavement," told AFP Mohsen Belabbas, a front man for the RCD, according to whom the deputy appeared to be in coma.
According to Dr. Rafik Hassan who was with him at Mustapha Hospital, Besbes seemed to suffer a head injury.
Tahar Besbes participated in the attempted march to the call of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD) at the "May 1st Place" in Algiers to the "Place des Martyrs", about 4 miles away.
At daybreak, May 1 Square was crisscrossed by large security forces backed by armored vehicles, which prevented the demonstrators from approaching the perimeter isolated by metal barriers.
Some 200 faceless myrmidons have still managed to infiltrate and demanded the fall of the regime, while hundreds were stranded in the adjacent streets.
Last week, an attempt to walk, also blocked by police, had attracted some 2,000 protesters.