Former police officer at Algiers international sentenced to 7 years imprisonment
Algiers’ district attorney has yesterday heard to the former department head of the detective division of Houari Boumedienne International Airport who was charged with forging official assessments and destruction of evidences.
- The officers was accused of giving assistance to two convicts implicated in forgery of legal documents, since he set free one of them who was arrested by while he was fleeing the country towards Paris with a fake passport and released a third one after being cleared of all charges.
- The case was opened again in the wake of the appeal lodged by the defendant’s lawyer following his condemnation to 7 years imprisonment in 2008. The events go back to 2005 when a man called M. S was arrested by airport’s security services on his way to Paris with a forged passport.
- The man was soon transferred to B.S, in his quality as the head of the detective division at the airport, for further investigations and has admitted that he bought the passport from another man. But the two convicts were released after being interrogated for further investigations.
- The officer, has yesterday, revealed to the attorney that he informed the public prosecutor about the case and received orders to carry o the investigations. But the attorney asked why he didn’t keep any record of the inquiry and why he didn’t forward the convicts to the public prosecutor at that time?.
- Answering to this question, he replied “ He ( the prosecutor) didn’t asked me to bring them before him”. The attorney struck back sating” How do you explain the use of a forged seal on the dossier which doesn’t exist at the court?”
- In the wake of these new elements, the convict’s appeal was ruled out because he should have presented the convicts before the public prosecutor, thus the 7 year sentence was confirmed.