Khalifa trial will be in public after judicial holiday, Justice Minister says
Justice will continue the trial of the billionaire Abdelmoumene Khalifa after the end of the judicial vacation, and his case like the rest of the issues in the possession of justice and that requires legal procedures that must be respected, as these legal actions are stipulated in Algerian law, Justice Minister, Tayeb Louh said.
“The trial will be in public, as is known globally and internationally in all legislations and trials”. Justice Minister refused to give any detailsconcerning scheduling the first case that came back after the cassation appeal that has been postponed since April 2013 by the Criminal Court of Blida, or the second belonging to Abdelmoumene Khalifa, who will be tried alone, after he opposed in the judgement in absentia.
in his response on the journalists’ questions about the course of the investigation by the French justice in the case of”Tibhirine monks”, the Minister explained that the investigation continues in accordance with the judicial agreements that wereconcluded between France and Algeria, and that there are procedures that were required by the Algerian justice, and are taking place in France, and other investigations under way in Algeria at the request of the French justice, and all this is being done – says the minister – in the framework of legal agreements between the two countries in accordance with the judicial legislation as part ofrogatory commissions, which will be done, he says, “inevitably after the judicial holiday.”