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| Suicide bombings in Algiers on December 11, 2007: indefinite postponement of the trial |
| 2010-12-07 |
| [Ennahar] The trial of alleged perpetrators of suicide kabooms on 11 December 2007 against the headquarters of the Constitutional Council and against a UN building in Algiers was indefinitely postponed after it opened Monday in Algiers, said a journalist from the AFP. In total, 13 people including seven on the lam including the leader of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Abdelmalek Droukdal, sued for the double suicide kaboom that had killed 26 people and made 177 maimed, according to an official report. The President of Algiers criminal court on Monday announced the postponement of the trial after the lawyer of one of the defendants had filed an appeal against the decision of dismissal. "This appeal must be reviewed by the Supreme Court. The case is therefore referred to an unspecified date," told AFP this lawyer, Amine Sidhoum. The court also denied a defense motion for the provisional release of another defendant. |
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