Said Bassam al-Naimi that the Salafi Jihadist protest in Zarqa on Friday was "like the rest of the peaceful sit-ins carried out in the past," adding that the violence that erupted was the work, once again, of "thugs" who arrived to harass the peaceful protesters, thugs armed with sticks, stones and pipes. Al-Naimi told AmmanNet that a minibus that had transported protesters to the site was attacked by the thugs, without the intervention of security forces to try and stop them, and four people were injured.