Sarkozy's man with the Mahchoucha

Jacqueline de Croÿ - 6 juillet 2010

Safia was 7-years-old in 2009, when she was taken hostage to silence her family on a terrorism case, conducted to ensure the most favourable political control of Algeria for France.

Farah, the mother of Safia, had published among the death notices from the West Tribune of Oran of January 23, 2005, an open letter to President Bouteflika on the alarming remarks of her second husband, a Frenchman, director of Renault in Oran. She accused him of acts of violence and of threatening her with a death that would be attributed to an act of terrorism. He possessed weapons without a license, including a Mahchoucha: a sawed-off shotgun, very popular with Algerian terrorists for its ability to kill targets that can be approached closely.

- I indeed have two guns in my house at Arzew, a 12 gauge and one which I do not know the name, to hunt crows, said the Frenchman with the Mahchoucha. The newspaper El Watan was nicknamed "the traitor to Islam" for having failed to ask the relevant questions on the crows that can be approached so closely. The reduction of a gun barrel indeed reduces its propulsive power and scatters the bullets contained in the cartridge, which destroys their impact beyond two meters distance. This is why a scarecrow is far more effective than a Mahchoucha to scare crows.

Farah died 62 days after her call for help, during a chase on a road with sharp curves. Three people where killed, but one of her nephews has survived. He testified that the Frenchman with the Mahchoucha was there, which presumes he was part of the chase. The dossier was closed without inquiry.

Nicolas Sarkozy intervened to ensure "the mobilization of French diplomacy" to give Safia, born in 2001 from Farah's first marriage, to the crow hunter. The Algerian authorities cancelled the court order for DNA tests to determine who was Safia’s father, between Farah’s first and second husband. Farah’s mother, an old lady, and one of her brothers were imprisoned in full mourning for having requested the proof of paternity before returning the child to strangers. The French president then thanked his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika and his Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni: "I know the role played by the Algerian authorities," he said. These authorities gave back the Mahchoucha to the protégé of the French president, together with a licence... to hunt crows?

Safia was sent in France, given to the elderly people without family ties to frustrate the attention of her family on the real issue: political murders concealed by false acts of terrorism, which are covered by the authorities of both countries. The child, now 8-years-old, lives between Marseille and Toulon with the sister and mother of the Frenchman with the Mahchoucha: two old ladies aged 70 and 90 years. The Oran court decided June 9, 2010 that the little hostage would be in the custody of her maternal grandmother every W/E, from Friday 9:00 am to Saturday 5 pm, during religious and national festivals, as well as during the school holidays. However, Safia is still retained in the south of France for the summer holidays, far away from the laughter and games of her many cousins who are waiting for her in Algeria.

Safia dossier: http://safia.droitfondamental.eu/