Algeria protests: 'The moderates in the army will be frightened by the scale of the protests'
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Tens of thousands protested across Algeria on Friday in the biggest rallies yet against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in office, a day after the 82-year-old leader warned against the risk of "chaos". Lahouari Addi, a professor of sociology at the University of Lyon, takes a look at the possible implications of Algeria's largest protest movement in decades.