Ghardaia events: In case of police breaches, those responsible must be brought to justice

 Interior Minister, Tayeb Belaiz, declared Monday in Algiers that "if breaches of some policemen in Ghardaia events are crimes, according to the penal code, they should be brought before justice and necessary measures will be taken in accordance with law." In a statement to the press on the sidelines of the Lower House session to oral questions, Belaiz said that "if there are police breaches in Ghardaïa, these are isolated and individual acts which investigation are underway," adding that "if these investigations confirm these breaches, administrative measures must be applied and if these acts are crimes under the penal code, the perpetrators must be brought to justice." The commission of inquiry sent by the Director General of National Police, Major General Abdelghani Hamel, decided the suspension of three police officers and bringing them before the competent courts, following the broadcast of a video shows some security agents failing to their duty in Ghardaia.