Brother of Rachid Nekkaz: “Two people kidnapped me from Kherrouba station, to prevent deposition of signatures”
Rachid Nekkaz. Photo: Echorouk
Rachid Nekkaz, the candidate for the Presidential Elections, seemed during the funeral of his grandmother, very tired and sad to the point of being enable to attend the funeral prayers and the burial ceremony in the Sehailia cemetery in Chlef, western Algeria.
Echorouk seized the opportunity of Bouabdallah (brother of Rachid Nekkaz)’s presence in the funeral of his grandmother, to ask him about the true story of the disappearance of the leaf forms that he was assigned to take to the Constitutional Council in Algiers.
“We entered to the Constitutional Council amid the media cameras, and after my brother Rachid went out of the car, “Peugeot 308″ that we were riding, he entered in the corridors of the Council, and I was waiting in the car to deposit the signatures documents, then a man called me to say that he had an envelope of 17.000 signatures forms that he brought from the Sahara regions”.
“I was astonished because we received all the envelopes via the Kharouba station, but I decided to meet him, without any objection of those who were in the Constitutional Council’s door, and no one spoke to me at that time. After I came out of the Constitutional Council, I stopped in Kharrouba station, then a person looked in the right glass of my car’s window and asked me if I’m Nekkaz and I said: Yes, and I opened the door, then he rode quickly and another man jumped in the back seat and was hiding behind pulling his hand around my neck, then the man next to me took out a knife, and ordered me to drive, and I did not know the way and I felt fear and panic. All I’ve realized over the course is the banner of Boumerdes (eastern Algiers).”
“After a period of driving, I was asked to stop at the edge of the road and remove the key from the car, I remembered that I have 200,000 ZDZ, and I said: What do you want from me? The car? They said: We just want a quick session.”
“I knew that it’s about wasting time in order not to pay the forms on time, then my brother Rachid called me, and I said: I am in big trouble, then they took my cell phone and insulted me, then they put it off. I could only see the man who was sitting next to me, as I caught a glimpse of his face, and I did not see the second who was behind me, because of darkness, and I did not turn to him due to fear. They were speaking with an Algiers slang”.
Nekkaz brother, who was in charge of the transferring forms for signatures to the Constitutional Council, described the way that his brother came out of the presidential elections as ridiculous.
“Thanks to Allah I survived, and I could not believe what happened to me, because I have nothing to do with politics.”