Algeria Files 730 Complaints to Compensate Victims of Reggan Nuclear Tests

Algeria files over 730 official complaints to the French authorities for the purpose of compensating victims of nuclear crimes that were carried out in Reggan during the colonial period, lawyer Fatma Zohra Ben Brahem said, on Saturday.

Lawyer Ben Brahem, asserted in a forum of the newspaper (Djoumhouria) “Republic” in Oran, western Algeria, that this action coincides with the 57th anniversary of the Reggan’s nuclear bombings. 

“These complaints are still neglected by the French authorities. “Evian” convention’s most provisions were agreed upon under the table, and it does not contain a text that said that France had the right to exercise its nuclear tests on the Algerian territory, but in spite of this, it conducted them with rotten ways, as France, as narrated by some witnesses who lived through that period of time, brought in the nationals of other countries which it occupied at the time, like the African countries, and exercised its nuclear tests, and it conducted its experiments on 600 Algerians who died, and it picked up pictures of them like they were rats of experiments.”

“France signed on the Criminal Court Act in 2001, in which it mentioned that the crime does not become obsolete, and that it can not offer the civil archive for the victims of colonialism, but after 100 years, in order to make the Algerian people forget what it have done since occupation.”

Expert in nuclear physics, Kazem Abboudi, said that France offered 100 million euros for anyone who proves that it has conducted nuclear crimes in Algeria, adding that more than 150.000 victims of radiation and nuclear bombs are not recognized by France, calling on the Algerian authorities to provide devices to determine radiation, which are not used to this day in the states of Tamanrasset and Adrar in particular.