A video that rocks Algeria.. an innocent young man was burned to death on charges of setting fires and the killers take a "selfie" with his body.. Photos

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The murder of a young man on charges of setting fires in the forests of the Tizi Ouzou region and setting his body on fire by angry citizens, caused shock and uproar in Algeria, after it became clear that he was innocent, and that he was there to provide assistance.

Pictures and videos circulating on social media platforms showed a large number of citizens burning a person they suspected of setting fires to forests, which led to the death of about 69 citizens, including 20 soldiers.

According to "Sky News Arabia", the video was taken in the city of Nat Irathen, one of the areas affected by the fires that broke out in the state of Tizi Ouzou, where the young man was arrested by a group of citizens who insisted on his liquidation, so that the policemen intervened and extracted him from them to take him to the investigation, but the angry youth returned They pulled him out of the police car, killed him, burned his body, and filmed it.

A few hours after the spread of the young man’s video, a group of people from the city of Miliana in the state of Medea (80 km west of the capital) responded to the video, and confirmed that the person who had been burned was the son of their city and that he was a musician named Jamal Ben Ismail, who moved to the affected area, to provide assistance to the people in Extinguishing the fire, loaded with equipment and money, and his statements were circulated as he called on people to show strength and courage and join the Tizi Ouzou region to provide assistance in extinguishing the fires.

And the "Algeria 1" website reported that "the notables of the Kabylie region and representatives of the villages of Al-Arbaa Nath Irathan will go to Miliana tomorrow to offer their apologies and condolences on behalf of the region to the family of the deceased young man."

The incident aroused widespread indignation in Algeria and sympathy with the victim and his family, amid calls for the arrest and accountability of the aggressors. The journalist, Ben Ammar's leaders, considered that the scene that was circulated and documented the process of hauling a young man and killing him and then abusing his body, "is very horrific, and it is devoted to barbarism that exceeded expectations and brutality showed himself in front of everyone and without a veil, and is also devoted to the absence of the state.”

In a blog post, he said, "The killers and their collaborators must be stopped and held accountable immediately before anger spreads like flames, and so that a culture of random punishment and revenge is not established just because of suspicion."

In the same context, activist Hamza Labyad said, "Burning a person alive and taking a group selfie with him is a non-human and non-animal behavior as well." And they appear now to ask for pardon?”, stressing that “all the people who appeared in the video must be held accountable and imprisoned for life, as the least of the absence of retribution, otherwise there will be great sedition.”

Meanwhile, on Thursday night, massive protests erupted in the Miliana region, to denounce this incident, as the people asked the authorities to intervene to arrest those involved and hold them accountable.

Forest fires sweeping areas in the north of the country have killed at least 65 people, and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has declared three days of public mourning for the dead and froze state activities unrelated to the fires.

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