A march that brought many tens of thousands of Kabyles into the capital, Algiers, was organized by the Arouch movement, which along with the autonomist "Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylie" sprang from the civil activism surrounding the disturbances. The demonstration was followed by confrontations between the local population of Algiers and the demonstrating Kabyles. The police sided with the ""Algérois"" and state television thanked ""les Algérois" for having defended their town from the invaders". Since then, public marches in Algiers are prohibited.