MAI: first rows of protesters involved girls and children
The Internal Ministry (MAI) says that there were children, teenagers and girls in the first rows of the potesters, which made impossible for them to apply special means.
MAI informs that the 7 April manifestations on the Square of the Great National Assembly (PMAN) involved mostly pupils and students. “The crowd, crying out anti-governmental and anti-state pancards, moved on to to presidency and the parliament. Even if there were 100 policemen there, with no special equipment and organizing no active measures, the protesters started attacking with stones”.
Further on, additional police forces were dislocated, but the attack continued. The force interventions led to destroying two anti-fire vehicles and another three police trucks. As a result of the altercations, of the fires of the edifice and spread of the toxic gas, the police was forced to give up.
In front of the parliament, the police applied different special means, tear gas and accoustic grenades, but they had no effect. The altercations in front of the parliamet continued till 24:00.
After receiving the signals about the shop vandalization, attacks and robbery of the passers-by on the streets adjacent to PMAN, the police intervened with mobile teams to retain the vandals and disperse the crowd. Thus, about 200 citizens were taken to the police commissariats for penal examination on robbery, houliganism and other infringements.
During the actions of the public order insurance, about 150 police representatives were injured, 45 of whom are hospitalized, three in severe state.
BASA-Press
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