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Shaima’s body was found in an abandoned gas station in Thania, Boumerdes (50 km east of Algiers).
According to preliminary investigations, the perpetrator of the crime is preceded by the judiciary, and the victim had previously filed a complaint against him for rape in 2016, when he was only 14 years old, and the case was paralyzed, and the offender returned to his acts and kidnapped Shaima in front of his house with knives. He raped her, then burned her body and fled.
The victim’s mother sent a letter to President Abdul Majeed Tebboune to implement the death penalty and retribution against her daughter, and said in a video posted on social media that she knows the offender and had previously filed a complaint against him. years ago on charges of stalking his daughter.
Hundreds of Algerians sympathized with Shaima’s mother, and various intellectuals and media professionals commented on the incident on social media.
The journalist Mehrez Rabia wrote: “The result is a family in mourning and suffering or no one comforted, this despicable act and the need to reactivate the death penalty in Algeria.”
Journalist Leila Bouzidi wrote: “Justice must act immediately and the media rise up in all its forms against those who justify the murderous rapist for his atrocious crime and incite violence against women.”
The head of the Algerian Network for the Defense of the Rights of the Child, Abdel-Rahman Arara, confirmed that Algeria records more than 9,000 incidents of sexual assault per year, including incest, rape, sexual abuse and cases related to kidnapping, and Algeria This year it counted 13 cases of child abduction this year, without registering. Any victim.
The head of the “Nada” association, considered one of the most famous in defense of children’s rights, considers that the mechanisms adopted to combat this phenomenon did not deviate from the security framework, and Arara said: “The measures adopted in Algeria To eliminate this phenomenon they focus on the deterrence of security without any accompaniment. ” Aimed at the children and families of the victims. “
He added: “Unfortunately, they do not work with social and health actors, and support is not provided to the families of the victims.” Once the legal paperwork is complete, the family is left to its own potential and struggles with problems, not to mention the tragedy of families who have never found their children.
Algerian law includes around 18 crimes punishable by death, all of them related to the loss of human life, while article 293 bis of the Penal Code establishes that the penalty for the crime of kidnapping ranges between 10 and 20 years. prison, being able to reach death if the abducted person dies.
Legal experts believe that Algeria will proceed with the implementation of this punishment, despite the fact that it has signed the International Agreement on Civil and Human Rights.
