Criminal Court of Sidi Belabes has pronounced death penalty against the terrorist Bahri Djilalli, alias “the hungry wolf” after being charged of assassinating 11 teachers (women and men) later in September 1997 in Ain Adane area, Sfizef Prefecture, Sidi Belabes province, western Algeria.The condemned terrorist, who has been present in the trial, denied all the charges that the court has pronounced against him. He told the judge that on the assassination day he and his group had set up a bogus checkpoint to steal fuel from the passing cars, alleging that he was somehow far from the Karzan bus which carried the teachers who were slaughtered by terrorists there. He further told the court that he ignored that those teachers were assassinated. The trial has been characterised by the absence of the main witness in this case; the driver of the Karzan bus who miraculously escaped death. The driver has already attested that he had seen the terrorist Bahri Djilalli executing the teachers, according to his statements mentioned in the nonsuit.
To recall, Sidi Belabes Criminal Court has already convicted “the hungry wolf” to death in absentia, before surrounding to Oran security services in 2006.