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In Focus: Convictions in the Blida trial in Algeria

The military court in Blida yesterday sentenced seven people to at least 15 years in prison, including Saïd Bouteflika, the brother of the former president, but also Mohammed Mediène, Athmane Tartag and Louiza Hanoune, for " conspiracy against the State " and " Attack on the authority of the army ". In Algeria, TSA writes " the chronicle of a trial like no other ". " A media show was announced for what was to be the trial of the century, but ultimately it will be nothing ." The trial lasted only two days and was conducted " in an anonymity that does not suit the importance of the event, the quality of the mis en cause and the seriousness of the facts that are blamed " .

TSA then tells the difficulties to cover this trial " Monday, the journalists, present in force around the court, will know nothing of what happened in the courtroom " before obtaining " bits of information " from the defense lawyers. And the paper concludes " Strongly another trial, preferably public ".

This " emblematic " trial " obviously reflects a strong will to fight against impunity, " said El Moudjahid , still in Algeria, who " considers Algeria to be on the right track ".

The foreign press wonders about the speed of this trial

" Quick Trial " " Expeditious " The same qualifiers come back everywhere. " Algerian justice is shooting faster than its shadow, " says Wakat Séra in Burkina Faso. " This sentence applied to a powerful yesterday, become simple litigant today, looks like a cleaver fit to try to calm the street that continues to growl " while new events are expected tomorrow, more than 7 months after the beginning of the mobilization.

But " the street will not be so easily confessed " no doubt " Ahmed Gaïd Salah figure prominently on his list of people to release " the Burkinabé newspaper, which shares the same analysis as La Tribune Afrique, said: " The trial of the band recalls this vast hunt for the leaders of the old regime that General Ahmed Gaïd Salah launched, and his strategy to organize a presidential election to find a successor to Abdelaziz Bouteflika, are seen as a way to offer a second life to the system without changing the deep structures . "

In addition, the suspension of the CMA of the Malian national dialogue

This project led by Prime Minister Boubou Cissé. " The Coordination of Azawad Movements slams the door, " said IciLomé in Togo in response to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's statement that some of the provisions of the peace agreement could be discussed in the national dialogue. " The former rebels fear a potential revision of the agreement for political purposes, " says the site.

So we are heading towards a dialogue without two major players, the CMA and the FSD, the Front for the Protection of Democracy, a coalition of the opposition party. " The Malian authorities have much to insist on the inclusiveness of the national dialogue, for the moment the pitfalls remain numerous. Mayonnaise is hard to take, "believes Maliweb , who wonders what " is worth a dialogue without a significant part of the political class, a part of civil society and former rebels? "

The country in Burkina goes further and wonders about the consequences of this withdrawal from the CMA. " Are we going towards the death of the Algiers agreement? » . " If the will of the CMA was to kick the national dialogue and in turn, the agreement of Algiers, we can say that it succeeded " So whose fault? " The original sin of the Algiers agreement is linked to the lack of sincerity of its signatories and to the ambiguous position of its godfathers ", namely France and Algeria says the newspaper which concludes, " If 4 years after the signing this agreement, Mali continues to live in fear of the mines and rifles of terrorists is that there are areas of shadows. Either the agreement is lame or the actors are not ready to make peace .