25 years among the dead, rather than seconds with living

Nobody knows the real drives that pushed him to flee the living and seek refuge among the dead where there is no injustice.

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• Douichen has chosen to live among the dead in a cemetery in the province of Tebessa (Far East Algeria) where he takes his shower and converses with his dead neighbors. Fares didn’t choose a main street or a luxurious building or even a park to live in, but he resorted to dwell in a cemetery and is quite happy with his situation. In a declaration to “Echorouk” he said “ No one from the living cared about me, so I turned  to the dead”.
• He lives there since 1984, the date where his mother passed away while he was 7 years old. He and his two brothers went through hard times till the day when his step mother, kicked them out of the family house to end up like vagabonds.
• Fares spent 25 years in the cemetery, he ‘s got the eeriest address  in Algeria, for those who want to see him they have only to read “ Sidi Kherif cemetery” .  “ I smell security and safety there is no fear , may be freezing temperatures in winter and scorching ones in summer” he says.
• The young man was talking with bitterness in his voice; he was a living- dead, as he put it to “Echorouk”w aht happened to his family was beyond imagination, being jobless he is  unable to rent a house and is fed by  good will people , sometimes he keeps watch over the cars of a bank clients in the neighborhood.
• With a sad voice he added “ I’m the only one who will buried in my living place”. He hesitated but added “ I will tell to my two brothers to bury me among the living to turn upside down the equation” . His situation is not strange to the local authorities regardless of their political parties but nothing was done to change his life experience.
• Fares cried so many times and declared “Let me her in the cemetery , because I died the day the peoples’ heart died “