Col. Ali Tounsi Assassination: 54 Witnesses To Be Brought Before Justice

Algiers Criminal Court will consider, on Sunday, the case of the assassination of Colonel Ali Tounsi, the former General Manager of the National Security, at a time when the main accused, who was the national security director of unit, the retired Colonel Chouaib Oultache, is in temporary prison at Algiers El Harrache punitive institution, after more than seven years following the incident which raised controversy in the national and international public opinion, due to the file’s ambiguous details.

Same court will open one of the most controversial cases in Algeria, and it comes to the assassination of the former General Manager of the National Security, Ali Tounsi, as it decided to be program it within the supplementary sessions for 2016, for adjudication and hearing the statements of the sole defendant in the case, along with 54 witnesses, including experts and officials, leaving the possibility of postponing the file to the next sessions because the defense lawyers insist on the compliance with a number of witnesses who were heard during the investigation.

Judge Omar Belkharchi is expected to head the lineup Sessions of the Criminal Court, to look in the file, which remained locked in drawers for a long time and was not programmed, despite the end of the investigations, and because it was appealed by the civil party and the defense of the accused at the Supreme Court, after the the Dean of investigating judges, Abdelhamid Bourzague, from the Court of Bab El Oued, announced charges of intentional and premeditated murder, and the possession of a firearm from the fourth class and ammunition without permission of the authorities.

Defense of the accused also presented hypothesis about a third person who was in the office, which is the place of the murder, but the investigation revealed the opposite, in addition to the confessions of the accused before the investigating judge, which confirm that he is guilty.