"A new video showing Bahrain police officers assisting in the looting of a
supermarket demonstrates the continuing culture of impunity among the country’s
security forces despite claims of reform by the government, said activist group
Bahrain Watch on Friday. The video (), posted on
the YouTube account of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, was recorded on the
evening of Tuesday, April 10 by closed-circuit surveillance cameras inside a
supermarket in the neigbourhood of Nuwaidrat. The video shows a mob enter,
vandalize, and loot the store, which belongs to the “24 Hour Market” chain.
Several minutes into the video, uniformed police enter the market and motion to
looters to leave before filming the destruction with their own
cameras. Police do not attempt to stop the perpetrators or make any
arrests. Furthermore, officers are also seen taking part in the looting and
vandalism themselves: one breaks a shop window (5:15), and another walks out of
the market with a bottle of water (4:50). Towards the end of the episode, an
officer indicates the location of one of the store’s surveillance camera to a
looter (6:11), who smashes it as the video ends." (thanks Ali)