Fuel station in Tindouf camp set ablaze

The fire incident is one more indication of the continuing state of insecurity in the refugee camp located in the West of Algeria, often highlighted and criticized by human rights groups.

According to a Tindouf-based Sahrawi association, the Forum of Support of the Tindouf autonomists (FORSATIN), a fuel station in Laayoun camp in Tindouf was exposed in the early hours of dawn Sunday, to a massive fire that led to the devastation of most of the station’s facilities.

There was talk of it being a theft followed by a fire to the station to camouflage and hide the signs of the theft, especially since the back door was found broken, and there was talk about the theft on the station. The fire looked instigated, artificial, suspicious and mysterious.

Whether the first or second version is proven, in both cases the station was robbed and set on fire by a perpetrator, especially since the cameras and the camera’s recording box were not found, which means that the one who set the fire was afraid that the box would not burn and his matter would be exposed.

The Polisario Front tried to circulate the story that the accident was just an electrical fault, and asked the owners of the station to confirm the same story, fearing the growing anxiety of the residents, and their fear of the security chaos that has become disturbing to them, and exposing them to looting and daily theft.

This confirms the disorderliness and recklessness in the Tindouf camp, one that portends an apocalypse if the signs are not taken seriously and nibbed in the bud.