Achour Abderrehmane to the Judge: ” Some malevolent people wanted to crush me”

Achour Abderrehamane appeared the day before yesterday before the judge here in Algiers as an intellectual man who masters the legislation jargon as if he was himself a lawyer.

• Some say that his university law studies  helped him to be more confident before his prosecutors while others believe that his acquaintances with the justice corridors forged his talent as an accomplished lawyer.
• Yesterday was the turn of two police officers to appear before the judge to give their own version of the facts concerning the glaring forged  reports they have sent to the Moroccan authorities on Achour Abderrehamane.
• For his part the defender appeared outrageously confident declaring that he was the victim of some jealous persons, adding that his former associate had sent him from France the same report.
• The first defender, a police officer in the locality of Tipasa (western Algiers),  asserted that his henchman Z. Al Hachemi, former top officer in the same locality,  contacted him in 2004 asking for a copy of the report they worked out on Achour Abderrehamne .
• The report was supposed to be sent to the district attorney but Z. Al Hachemi insisted on the fact that this document  should be sent to the National Security Central Command, arguing that this document contains evidence that the transactions made by Achour Abderrehamane were legal ones. But the relevant report was instead sent directly to the plaintiff in Morocco.
• But Al Hachemi denied these allegations saying that he didn’t receive any document and declared not having any relationship with Achour Abderehamne but heard about him as being a notorious businessman in the locality of Kolea (Algiers suburbs).
• Achour: All my transactions with the bank were legal.
• At around 6 pm, the judge called the plaintiff to the bar and the latter started pleading in a perfect classical Arabic saying that he was a framed victim: “I was receiving anonymous threating letters daily, some wanted to get revenge because they were jealous of my success”.
• ” My problems started when I received a loan from a bank which I couldn’t reimburse on time, so I was sued by the court but I ended up  paying my debt. Some people wanted to me crush me”, he argued. 
• Then he mentioned another case dating back to 2002 when he was accused of fraud and embezzelment “I was heard by the judge who had to hand down the sentence within a week. In the meantime, an anonymous person contacted me on the phone informing me that the judge would sentence me to three years’ imprisonment, that’s why I decided to flee to Morocco”.
•  But , he added: “ I was cleared of all charges”; at this moment the judge asked him why he fled to Morocco then? “ I was afraid, everybody was threatening me and no one knows how they would mix you in trouble”.
• Surrounded by a group of  lawyers, Achour Abderrehmane confidently declared “ My appearance before the judge in a case of embezzlement will shed light on a vast plot hatched against me”