Interpol hands over Belloumi a document rescinding international arrest warrant issued against him

Lakhdar Belloumi

The drama serial about the "Belloumi affair" officially wound up yesterday after the rescinding by Interpol of an international arrest warrant issued against the former Algerian international football player wrongly implicated in a brawl in a Cairo hotel lounge during which an Egyptian doctor was seriously injured in his eye by a bottle broken end.

• Lakhdar Belloumi who has always claimed his innocence in this unfortunate incident, which occurred 20 years ago, has now been cleared of all legal proceedings thanks to the reconciliation efforts undertaken by the higher Algerian authorities at the initiative of the President of the Republic Mr. Abdellaziz Bouteflika in collaboration with their Egyptian counterparts.
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• Getting rid at last of this long ordeal, Lakhdar Belloumi told "Echorouk" that he was bracing now for a "Omra" or small pilgrimage to the holy places of Islam in Saudi Arabia to thank and glorify Allah, God Almighty for this happy ending.
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