The family of the two vacationers, including a Franco-Moroccan, killed Tuesday at sea by shots attributed to Algerian coast guards in a border area between Morocco and Algeria, will file a complaint in France in particular for assassination, announced his lawyers on Sunday. The complaint will be filed “Monday or Tuesday” for “aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, hijacking of a ship and failure to assist a person in danger”, Me Hakim Chergui, one of the lawyers for the families of the victims.
“The severance of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Algerian Republic, at the initiative of the latter, cannot justify the commission of the slightest crime and even less the impunity of its perpetrators”, write in a press release Me Chergui and Me Ghizlane Mouhtaram, who defends the family in Morocco. “This is the reason why, constrained by the silence of the Algerian authorities, on whose territory the assassinations took place, they have no choice but to resort to French justice so that all the light is shed. on this drama of indescribable cruelty”, add the two lawyers.
According to the testimony of a 33-year-old Franco-Moroccan, Mohamed Kissi, four vacationers, of which he was one, got lost at sea during a jet-ski trip on Tuesday. They were joined by coast guards aboard a boat, who fired on them. His brother Bilal Kissi, a 29-year-old trader and father of two young children, and his cousin Abdelali Mechouar (or Mchiouer), a 40-year-old trader living in France and father of a five-year-old child, were killed. A friend, Smaïl Snabé, Franco-Moroccan, was arrested by the Algerian coast guard. Mohamed Kissi was rescued by the Moroccan Navy.
The prosecution of Oujda, a city in northeastern Morocco bordering Algeria, on Wednesday ordered the opening of an investigation to determine the circumstances “of a violent incident at sea”, according to a judicial source at the agency. Moroccan MAP.
The Kissi family requests “from all the parties concerned the utmost diligence in order to allow the restitution to his relatives of the body of Abdelali Mchiouer, currently under the hand of justice in Algeria, and his burial in Morocco, surrounded by all those who knew and loved him, in the shortest possible time”, let know Mes Chergui and Mouhtaram. The families of the victims “call […] for respect for their suffering and for the greatest vigilance with regard to extremist recoveries on all sides”, add the two councils.
