Algeria: Citizen Sets Self Ablaze After Rejection By Police

A young Algerian set himself ablaze after a police officer refused to take his complaint about a stolen bike, a senior official in an organisation representing unemployed people told AFP Thursday.

"He went to lodge a complaint about the theft of his mobylette, but the policeman who received him ... refused to note it down," national coordinator of the National Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Jobless (CNDDC), Tahar Belabes, told AFP.

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