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Former French colons filed 600 complaints to UNCHR to recover their properties in Algeria
 The Algerian lawyer Mr. Benyamina said a huge number of real estate properties are still legally owned by French colons who left them after the Independence of Algeria in 1962, adding that several cases concerning these disputes have been submitted to Algerian courts. In this regard, Mr. Benyamina has pointed out that he has been contacted by French colons to be in charge of their cases, with the aim of recovering their properties, but refused, because of the political character of such cases. He further said that cases alike require an accurate opinion from Algerian Judges and Jurists. A communiqué released by the Ministry of Justice, posted on internet, said the institutions defending the interests of the former French colons in Algeria, submitted more than 600 records, and lodged several complaints to the United Nations Committee of Human Rights (UNCHR), with the aim of obliging Algeria either giving them back their properties they left after the independence of Algeria, or compensate them. In this context, the Ministry of Justice has received the final sentence issued by the UNCHR, last January, confirming the refusal of such claims. The UNCHR said these properties have been nationalized by the Algerian Government before the access of Algeria to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Posted by: Fred 2008-11-09 |
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