Jurists Call Upon Government To Review Death Penalty On Child Abduction

Commander of the Gendarmerie Team of Juvenile Protection in Oran province (western Algeria), Ahmed Laroussi, denied any child abduction except for some cases of disappearances, which was large among girl for two reasons, either due to the weakness of the academic level for both genders or the emotional relations and escape from the family home for girls.

“Most of the families go to the security services only a few hours of the disappearance of their kids, and then we can not talk about the kidnapping only after the passage of more than one day”.

Laroussi explained during his speech at the National Forum on Kids Abduction in Oran’s “Le Meridien Hotel”: “National gendarmerie services prepared a plan on last April, to rescue the abducted kids, which would remove the confusion early in kidnapping cases, through the distinction between them and the child’s disappearance as it was previously mentioned”.

“Same services coordinated with the Departments of Education in each province to regulate the times of entry and exit of pupils, and to ensure a list of names of people who accompany these pupils to and from the house, especially in the first sections of the study. They asked the nurseries to prepare a document with the names of parents of kids, and these measures will be more stringent in the isolated areas”.

Head of the Civil Society Academy, Ahmed Chenna, said that all the institutions are responsible for the growing phenomenon of kids abduction in Algeria.

“Kids abduction should not be confined to our country just because this exist worldwide. Civil Society Academy will send a report to higher authorities about this issue”.

For his part, Sheikh Fizazi Baghdadi, asserted in his speech, on the need to apply the death penalty law, which he considered a mercy for criminals and the community at the same time.

A jurist, Soufiane Chetta, asked for the reconsideration of the cases of kids abduction that are linked to sorcery, asserting that the Algerian legislature still categorizes them as second-class, and its punishment is five days and a symbolic fine.