Foreign news agencies compete in sparking panic among Algerians

Algerian National Defence denied national press reports Monday on the death of 13 people in the terrorist attack that targeted the town of Beni Amrane in Boumerdes province (50 km east of Algiers).

• The ministry said in a statement that the two bombs killed two: a French national and his Algerian driver who work for a French public works company.
• Reuters alleged that 20 people were killed in a bus station in Algiers Monday before it corrected its “breaking news” and said the attack was carried out in Bouira (east of Algiers). A lie was corrected by another lie but different in the crime and place. Those false news caused rumours sparking panic among people before making sure that the news was a new lie from foreign media sources.
• Such false news makes their reporters responsible for terrifying Algerians and promoting wrong information.
• Some western channels and news agencies overstated the terrorist attack in Beni Amrane in order to trigger panic and scepticism in Algeria. The promoted false figures and unreal news were no more than a service offered to terrorists for free.
• Algeria News Agency (APS), which represents an official source, announced the death toll of the attack. Yet, international news agency including AFP “ignored” that toll and fabricated other figures on the basis of unknown sources.
• Those agencies do not have correspondents in the place where the crime was perpetrated. So, how did they get their false information? Why were they so fast to report such news and “non-sure figure”?
• It was strange that non-sure news were quoted from those agencies while it was supposed to be based on Algerian sources instead of believing suspicious and false news!