Cache of the Colonial French Secret Army found in Algiers

An Algiers neighborhood called Diar Naama, lived on Monday night, on the impact of the spread of news about finding a secret hideout of weapons, machine guns, grenades, and dynamite, in the Villa No. 13, which was one of the headquarters of the Organization of the French Secret Army, owned by André Podini, who was working for the killer Bégart, who used it for assassinating the Mujahideen (war veterans) and the rebels during the Algerian revolution.

It was nine thirty in the morning, when Echorouk arrived to the neighborhood, and exactly to the Villa No. 13, where the ground cache was discovered, and once we entered the lobby of the house we were surprised by a five years old little carrying a bullet in her hand that she had brought from the ground cache, which was surrounded by a group of kids and workers.

The place was not completely cleaned, making it a major threat to the people of the house, Echorouk talked to the owner of the house, who is a Mujahid (war veteran), and one of the leaders of the National Liberation Front, Akli Amar 76, who was imprisoned during the French colonial era for more than 5 years, before returning to take up arms against the French Secret Army, but he was sidelined by the Ministry of the Mujahideen (war veterans), as he narrated details about Monday event, at about four o’clock pm, as after hours of the start in the work of excavation for expanding his garden, he noticed the presence of ferruginous bodies that were irremovable, and after further work of drilling on the aspects of those objects, builders discovered weapons and old hand grenades, including traditional machine guns, as well as considerable amount of live ammunition that was not used, as well as sharp machines for combat use.

The owner of the house, who is a Mujahid (war veteran), notified the gendarmes who moved to the place, and in turn have to inform the various security leaders and the prosecutor, who ordered the scientific police of Chateau Neuve to launch the sampling and conducting expertise on it.

A large number of weapons, ammunition, grenades, represent machine guns type “Matt 49”, “TNT” explosives, 3.000 cartridge bullets, closed boxes containing live bullets and cartridges that were not used, plastic bombs of large size, along with 40 traditional made bombs.