In Iraq, a new death in the dispute that wins Baghdad

A man was killed Friday on another day of protests against corruption and lack of public services in Iraq, bringing to nine the number of deaths since the beginning of this movement ten days ago.

The uproar, which has been waving the tribal and agricultural south of the country since 8 July, reached Baghdad on Friday, when hundreds of protesters were dispersed with water cannons and tear gas as they attempted to destroy their homes. to enter the ultra-secure green zone where the authorities sit

"It was believed that these politicians would improve the situation of the country, but they did nothing at all," said Yahya Hasnaoui, demonstrator of 50 years in Baghdad

Since the beginning of the movement, protesters have been concentrating their anger on institutions. They accuse the state of mismanagement and parties and their representatives of patronage and prevarication.

Several party seats and public buildings were set on fire and on Friday, protesters in Diwaniya went to the headquarters of several organizations, including the powerful armed group Badr.

There, "a civilian of about twenty years was mortally shot," a medical source told AFP. These bullets were fired by a Badr headquarters guard, the source added anonymously.

– Hangings –

This death brings to nine the number of people killed since the beginning of the movement. One was by the police, according to local officials, the others by unidentified gunmen.

The Iraqi government quickly denounced "vandals" infiltrated among the demonstrators Taking the "public goods".

On Friday, a traditional day of mobilization against corruption in particular, the protests that had suffered a respite in recent days resumed.

In Baghdad, hundreds of protesters tried to reproduce the coup by force of 2016, when they managed to hold a sit-in for several days inside the green zone, where are the US and British embbadies and the Parliament and the seat of government.

But police forces, deployed en mbade in the capital, prevented the crowd, from Tahrir Square in the city center, from crossing the Joumhouryia bridge that leads to the green zone, at intermittent price tag. 19659002] All the On Fridays since 2015, the capital is the scene of protests against corruption, including organized by supporters of the unprecedented alliance between the Shiite populist Moqtada Sadr and the Communists, who won together the legislative elections in May.

These parades have more recently gathered a handful of faithful. This time, however, hundreds of people gathered in Tahrir Square, like Mortada Mohammed, a 19-year-old Baghdadi who said he was demonstrating because he was "tired of living in the darkness."

– "Electricity, water, work, internet" –

"We have no electricity, no work, the water is regularly cut off for hours, and even the internet, we do not have it anymore," he said. he took away while social networks were inaccessible for almost a week.

Electricity is one of the major points of contention in the country where summer temperatures are around 50 degrees. In Nbadiryia, slogans call for the "resignation of the Minister of Electricity", while most Iraqi homes are only run for a few hours a day.

In the morning, the Ministry of Electricity announced that neighboring Kuwait would supply Iraq with 30,000 cubic meters of gas oil to power the power plants. This is, said a statement from the Ministry, a "first delivery" that should be followed by others "in the days to come."

In Basra, the southern port oil city from which is part of On July 8, several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the governorate headquarters in a calm atmosphere, an AFP photographer found.

In Nbadiryia, also south of Baghdad, hundreds of people chanted "No to bribery ", in the 12th most corrupt country in the world according to international rankings.

They then surrounded the governor's home, while security forces tried to disperse them with tear gas, reported a correspondent of the AFP