The court of Al Harrache, Algiers, sentenced Thursday a Spanish working in the Algerian company of the railway in Algiers, with 18 months prison, on charges of shredded 12.000 dinars defying a policeman at the international airport Houari Boumerdiene, thing which surprised the Spanish consul who attended the hearing in order to support the Spanish accused.

• The case of the forty year old Spanish, who was going back to Spain on Aid El Fitre, was considered as harming the sovereignty of the Algerian state and one of its symbols, as stipulated in the Penal Code Article 409, which states that anyone who deliberately burned down or vandalized in any way documents or copies or original contracts of the public authorities, or bonds or money, shall be punished by temporary imprisonment of 5 to 10 years.
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• The Spanish citizen, who worked as a high technician, since two years, at the National Company of Railway Station, recognised during the trial that he deliberately shredded 12.000 dinars after the police of Houari Boumediene airport asked him keep the amount of money as remaining money from 17.000 dinars, as they took only 5.000 dinars; “I was angry because I did not understand Arabic. I did not mean to offend Algeria’s sovereignty”.