Human rights activists: “It’s time to enforce death penalty against monstrous murderers of children”

The examinations carried out by the National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology of Bouchaoui municipalty (west of Algiers) (NCIC) have confirmed that bones found in the village of Ait Mechrek Toudert in the region of Ouacifs in eastern Tizi Ouzou province, belonged to the small Nihal Si Mohand, said Thursday the Prosecutor at the Court of Ouacifs, Fodhil Takharoubt.

“On this day, unfortunately, we received the results of DNA analyses carried out by specialists of the National Institute of forensic evidence and Criminology of Bouchaoui on objects found on the crime scene in Aït Toudert that confirm they belong to the deceased 4-year old Si Mohand Nihal ” he announced at a press conference.

In a reaction, a large number of citizens expressed their total solidarity with the bereaved family of the girl Nihal on “Facebook” pages, while calling for the implementation by justice of capital punishment against such monstrous murderers who kidnap and savagely kill innocent children.

The sad news of the brutal death of the little girl Nihal has sparked off a tidal wave of stupor and deep emotion in the region and in the entire national territory.

Human rights activist and Lawyer, Hassan Ibrahimi, told “Echorouk” to this effect that the relevant authorities must take a clear decision on the enforcement of the death penalty, which has been frozen by virtue of a political decision since 1993, despite the continuation by the criminal courts in handing down such sentences.

He argued that the life sentence imposed by justice ends often with conditional release or a presidential pardon, thus allowing these brutal and inhuman criminals to return to society despite their horrendous misdeeds.

He stressed that the phenomenon of kidnapping, rape and murder of children should be addressed firmly and with no prevarication by the relevant authorities.

For his part, the head of the Association “Nada” strongly called for the defense of children’s rights, by demanding the reactivation of the death penalty. Mr Abderrahmane Arrar said: “We are in a position not to be envied. And it’s time to unfreeze the death penalty, especially for the murder and abduction of children”.

He added: “We appeal to the President of the Republic to lift the freeze on capital punishment for such horrible crimes in order to ward off a spiraling of the risk of a larger outbreak of abductions, rapes and murders of innocent children in Algeria”.