Algeria’s Tebboune, caught between the people and the power
As the ‘Butcher of Algiers’ et al get away with their crimes, the country’s new president is obliged to play both ends against the middle
A year has passed since Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to resign, after months of intense anti-regime protests. The former president, who recently turned 83, has remained mostly home-bound ever since, but continues to evade justice for two decades of corruption and misrule.
In the months between his ouster and the election of his successor, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, military courts tried and sentenced a number of Bouteflika’s close associates, including his brother Said and his former intelligence chief, Mohamed Mediène, known as the “Butcher of Algiers.” Since being sworn in, Tebboune has pursued smaller fry, such as the former director-general of police...
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