Algeria’s national police chief murder: investigators start hearing witnesses
Investigators started working on the murder of Algeria’s national police chief Ali Tounsi Sunday. His bodyguards, secretary, executives who were present in the meeting room next to his office are heard.
- Investigations are going on in secret about the crime perpetrated by manager of the police’s aviation unit Colonel Choaib Oueltache.
- Echorouk has learnt that relationship between the victim and the killer has been tense for thee months. It was said Tounsi was going to dismiss Oualtache and sue him in some deals.
- All the staff at the Algerian security service DGSN noticed that tension between the two men. Oualtache tried to call the victim through his secretary but he could not reach him. Tounsi had ignored him for four times giving a different pretext each time. Because of that, the murderer was sure that he would be dismissed. He told colleagues he was feeling that he would be fired and sanctioned.
- On the day of the crime, his dismissal was sure. Oualtache lost his temper, took a small gun and kill the DGSN’s chief. He had insisted on meeting him though the secretary was giving pretexts to prevent him from entering. The victim had accepted to meet him briefly. After having talked for a while, Tounsi was shot dead.
- Witnesses told investigators about panic among executives following the crime. They were waiting for Tounsi to hold a meeting. The bodyguards entered his office. Oualtache wounded two of them and some executives.