Algeria’s Paranoia Peaks: Blames Morocco for Youth Protests

Since Saturday, the recently created digital group, known as "GENZ212", has been organizing demonstrations in the cities of Tiznit, Inzegane and Ait Amira, in the south of the country, as well as in the city of Oujda, in the east, and in Temara, near the capital Rabat. The demands of this group mainly concern issues of education, health, employment and social justice. In the wake of this, the security forces have dispersed the demonstrations. They have also arrested several demonstrators. But the arrests are far from dampening the ardor of "GENZ212". Calls continue on social networks to organize new sit-ins and marches.

On the web, a virtually identical group, GENZ213, is issuing anonymous calls to take to the streets in Algeria on October 3. In a long dispatch titled "Despite its clinical death, the makhzen does not forget Algeria", the official news agency, APS, accuses Morocco of being behind these calls to demonstrate in Algeria. Yet another accusation leveled against the kingdom.