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Judge’s murderers arrested

The crime was related to corruption cases according to first investigations
Monday Dec 18 2006.

Gendarmerie brigade in Annaba arrested yesterday five people accused of murdering a judge, Nabil Bouterfa, shot dead on December 7, and whose body was cast not far from the sidewalk of the road connecting Annaba and Chorfa.

The first of the accused persons was apprehended six days after investigation started. Investigators found a slip including the name and address of a man living in Bouni district, he had a rendezvous with the victim on the eve of the crime day, well informed sources say.

Investigations permitted the identification of the concerned who has been arrested in front of his house in a trap dressed by security forces.

When interrogated, the arrested individual confessed he took part in the crime among a gang, without giving plenty of information about the murder’s motives and circumstances. He also gave the names of his co-murders; he revealed they were three individuals living in Bouni district, in Annaba city centre.

All of them have been arrested on Saturday in possession of the gun used in the crime; it was the assassinated judge’s own gun. The interrogation of the four arrested persons led to another individual living out of Annaba, a member of a food and spare parts smuggling band. According to preliminary investigation, he was among the murders of the judge for reasons related to a settlement of account.

On other hand, gendarmerie’s investigations in coordination with Umm al-Buaghi court’s public prosecutor revealed that about 20 files, most of which are relating to corruption cases, have been disappeared from the same court.

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