Algerian MPs use their immunity to breach the laws of the republic

Figures released by security services have revealed that 17 members of the parliament were involved in various cases of corruption, abuse of power and even murders in addition to sexual assaults under cover of parliamentarian immunity.

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• The same sources have indicated to Echourouk that some parliamentarians have used this “ privilege” to garner staggering sums of money and turned to genuine tyrants, prompting the ministry of justice to urge the parliament to lift the immunity on 50 MPs involved in cases of corruption, but this request was put aside for unknown reasons.

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• The most striking example deals with one of the MPs from originally from a southern province and a member in one of the presidential alliance parties, who had an affair with a university student here in Algiers.

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• The parliamentarian has afterwards offered a car for his victim, who lost her virginity, asking her to keep secret their affair in return. But this later asked her two months after to give him back the car, prompting the girl to send a correspondence to the Secretary General of the MP’s party revealing in detail the affair.

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• Notwithstanding the girl’s letter, the party didn’t take any action against the wrongdoer, forcing the victim to lodge a complaint before the security forces but he slipped through the judicial procedures because of his immunity.

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• Another MP from an eastern province had an affair with a minor ( 16) that wrapped up with losing the virginity of the girl, but the victim’s father rushed to the security services to lodge a complaint against the parliamentarian.

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• The father had afterwards withdrawn the complaint after receiving 2 million DZD as damage and a promise to retrieve the girl’s virginity through a surgical operation, which he fulfilled at the end.

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• The head of the Algerian Human Rights League Budjemaa Guechir has indicated, in this respect, that the parliamentarian immunity doesn’t mean a judicial impunity but lifting this immunity requires long and complex procedures.

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