Algerian Soldiers Fired Live Ammunition at Moroccan Border

A Moroccan citizen suffered this Monday, August 31 of shooting from the Algerian border guards, when he crossed the border line. The victim was urgently evacuated to Al Farabi hospital in Oujda.

A Moroccan citizen suffered in the late afternoon from several shots of the Algerian border guards, when he crossed the border line towards Beni Drar in the Oriental region, sources reveal.

The victim, who meets the initials MS, was injured in the foot, “the medical source further reveals, adding that a bullet was extracted from him.

According to another source, the victim would be known in the middle of the fuel smuggling. Yet one thing remains certain: the Algerian border guards are deemed to be trigger-happy.

The incident that just occurred cruelly reminiscent of the one happened on October 28, 2014, when the Algerian border guards fired live bullets at a group of Moroccan civilians who were at the Moroccan-Algerian border (Oulad Saleh) . The attack left a serious injury, a family man, aged 28.

Reacting to this dangerous development, Rabat expressed its “strong indignation” and its “great concern”.

But, apparently, it is not as understood a deliberately hostile neighbor Morocco.