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Algeria was shaken on Sunday by a new crime in the series of kidnappings and murders of children, this time a tragic accident in which the 18-year-old girl “Shaima” was killed, whose body was found in an abandoned gas station in Thania in Boumerdes (50 km east of Algeria). Capital).
According to preliminary investigations, the perpetrator of the crime is preceded by a court of law, and the victim had already 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 action and kidnapped Shaima outside her home with a knife and raped her. Then his body was cremated and he fled.
The victim’s mother sent a letter to President Abdel Majid Tebboune to implement the death penalty and retribution against her daughter. In a video posted on social media, the woman said she knew the offender and that she had already filed a complaint against him in 2016 on charges of harassing her daughter.
Hundreds of Algerians sympathized with Shaima’s mother, and several intellectuals and media professionals commented on the incident on social media, and Algerian journalist Mahrez Rabia wrote: “The result: a grieving family, suffering or not being comforted by no one, this despicable act and the need to reactivate the death penalty in Algeria ”.
Algerian 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 heinous 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, between incest, rape, sexual abuse and cases related to kidnapping, and this year Algeria has counted 13 cases of child abduction during the current year without any victim being registered.
The head of the Nada Association believes that the mechanisms adopted to combat this phenomenon did not depart from the framework of dissuasive measures. Arara told Sky News Arabia: “The measures adopted in Algeria to eliminate this phenomenon are focused on deterring security without any accompanying measure directed at the children and relatives 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 procedures are completed, 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 varies from 10 to 20 years in prison, being able to reach execution if the abducted person dies.
Legal experts confirm that Algeria will proceed to apply this punishment despite having signed the International Agreement on Civil and Human Rights. The President of the National Council for Human Rights and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Professor Bouzid Lazhari, stated that Algeria will once again apply the death penalty against kidnappers of children.
In recent years, the voices have called on the Algerian authorities to provide more measures to protect children from kidnapping, given their significant number, as there are 5 million children under the age of 5 in Algeria and 13 million children under of 18 years.
In addition to being a popular demand, many organizations and activist associations, including the “Asociación Nada”, considered one of the most famous associations for the defense of children’s rights, advocate the application of the death penalty against the perpetrators of the crime of murder of children. “Our position is clear on the death penalty, and it should apply to the perpetrators of the crime of kidnapping, murder and sexual assault of minors,” said the president of Al-Jumayah.
In a new step to end these crimes that devour the body of society, the Ministry of Justice promulgated by order of the country’s president, Abdul Majeed Tabun, a special bill that includes stricter penalties for child abductors. The new law stipulates that life sentences will be imposed on those who kidnap children and are unharmed, while the death penalty will be imposed for the murder of children and torture of corpses.
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