Family of Algerian hostages in Libya protest in Constantine

Street rumors talked about the release of the Algerian family that is detained in mysterious circumstances, for nearly a month, in the Libyan territory and its presence currently in Tunisia.

Over a hundred people of both sexes who belong to Khetla family, and their neighbors and sympathizers, decided on Saturday, to launch a protest in Constantine from 10:00 to 12:00 am, as they decided to set off from the family’s house in the 4^th Kilometer district to the Onama neighborhood at a distance of almost a kilometer in a round-trip, during which they lifted banners that call upon the Algerian authorities for an effective contribution to free the Algerian family that disappeared since the beginning of November.

Khetla family members said they are thinking about the transfer of their protest to Algiers next week, if silence will remain prevailing their humanitarian cause, because they feel that their protests in Constantine are just a shout in a valley, as explained by a family member who told Echorouk that he denied categorically what was reported by the street and even some newspapers and websites about the release of the family, and its presence in Tunisia, and the detention period that caused many problems for the family after the rumors, which affected a married woman, her elderly mother, her brother and her Palestinian husband.

Khatla family is not interested to politics, and is interested to  laboriousness only for the decent life, as the family walked in a peaceful atmosphere despite the cold and some rainfalls,  amid the ordinary security presence, that did not affect the path and the goal of the participants in this rally, which aim is to inform the Algerian authorities that the case reached a dangerous level after the disappearance period reached a month, and because there are two women among the detainees, one of them is 65 and suffers from chronic diseases.