Algeria: the murder of a young girl revives the mobilization on feminicides
The entrance to the Algiers court.
(Illustration) RYAD KRAMDI / AFP
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Gatherings are scheduled for Thursday in several Algerian cities to denounce feminicides.
No official figures exist, but the Algeria Feminicides Facebook account, which is monitoring this subject, has identified 38 since the beginning of this year.
The murder of a young girl, Chaïma, revives the mobilization.
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Chaïma was 19 and was found dead last week in a deserted gas station near Boumerdes, east of Algiers.
Local media claim she was raped, beaten, and then burned to death.
According to the prosecutor, a suspect confessed.
He is being prosecuted for “rape and intentional homicide with premeditation and ambush, using torture”.
The death of this young girl causes great emotion in Algeria.
According to her mother, Chaïma knew her attacker, and had even lodged a complaint against him in 2016.
This reinforces the indignation, on social networks, where the hashtag #jesuischaima appeared.
Last Sunday, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered the application of maximum penalties against those responsible for kidnapping people.
The case of Chaïma also revives the debate on the death penalty.
A moratorium has been applied since 1993 in Algeria, but its questioning nevertheless divides society.
Last week, it was in Tunisia that the same debate on the application of the death penalty was revived.
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed has spoken out for the execution of the alleged murderer of a young woman.
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