Algiers, Boumerdes courts sentence 500 people to death

Death penalty for terror-related cases in courts in Algiers and Boumerdes province (50 km east of Algiers) reached 500 during the last criminal session including 218 in absentia in Boumerdes.

• The rest of the sentences were sentences in presence of accused people in Algiers and Boumerdes courts without any statistics in the rest of the courts.
• According to the General Attorney, Boumerdes court counted 218 death penalties in absentia against terrorists who committed various crimes in the province.
• The Attorney explaining that these sentences came after 211 terror-related cases had been handled. A total of 158 cases were handled during the first criminal session and 98 during the second one which was concluded last week.
• More than 38,000 cases were treated until the end of last June and were raised at the level of Boumerdes court, said the same source.
• Algiers court recorded a large number of important terror-related cases during its last criminal session which had occupied public opinion for a long time.