Clashes between security forces and Polisario thugs in Smara

Through a press release published by several sites and across social networks, the separatists from within invited their supporters to participate in a march last Wednesday in the main thoroughfares of Laâyoune. This march was intended to coincide with the festivities organised in the Tifarity buffer zone by the Polisario leadership, on the one hand, and with the visit to Laâyoune of the European Commissioner for Fisheries who was, according to the organisers, supposed to witness the human rights violations they wanted to provoke the security forces into committing, on the other. To encourage the population to attend this march, its organisers spread a rumour that the authorities had authorised it. This was immediately denied in a press release issued by the Pachalik of Laâyoune. The latter also warned that public authorities would intervene to put an end to any activity that could harm…