Hadjira shocked as father in mental hospital after 12 years of separation
Hadjira with her Algerian family in Constantine.
After she arrived at the Houari Boumediene Airport from Cairo to meet her father after 12 years of separation, Hadjira, started her journey on Wednesday to the city of Constantine (east of Algiers) where her Algerian father lives.
- It was moon on Thursday when Hadjira and her family’s members arrived to Mila province (east of Algiers) via the East-West motorway.
- While she was keen on seeing her father, her car parked next to a mental hospital.
- “What’s this? Where are we?” she asked. Her relatives told Hadjira her father is in hospital.
- It was a big shock to her. She cried until her father got out from the hospital. He has been there for more than a year. He was surprised and shouted “Hadjira” while the 18-year-old girl shed tears incapable of explaining what happened to her.
- Doctors told Echorouk the state of Hadjira’s father improved compared to the sharp nervous crisis from which he suffered.
- The 64-year-old man still remembers all the old details. He was asking about Hadjira’s uncles by name and she was answering.
- After leaving the hospital, Hadjira went to her family in Constantine. She was crying when she was warmly received by her brothers and her father’s wife.
- Hadjira’s father worked in Libya in the 1980’s as a car driver. The, he knew his daughter’s Egyptian mother. Her father was immigrant in Benghazi in Libya.
- When Hadjira was born, the conflict started between the father and the mother. In the 1990’s, the Egyptian family decided to go back to Alexandria and asked Hadjira’s father to immigrate to Egypt. The father and the mother got divorced and Hadjira was taken away from her father.
- “I am very happy here. The city is fascinating. I am not in my second country but I am in my dream and real country. My mother is Egyptian and my father is Algerian. I was born in Libya. I feel that I am the Arab League,” said Hadjira.
- Her uncles and brothers are planning to enrol her at a vocational training centre to learn cooking and traditional embroidery.