Alger
The steep landscapes of the Djurdjura National Park, in Kabylia, its large valleys where some small roofs of houses are lost, its indomitable rivers and eagles soaring over snow-capped peaks have become in a few years trendy settings for hikers- Instagram influencers.
However, a few years ago it was not so good to walk there.
This is where the route of the Frenchman Hervé Gourdel, a high mountain guide from Nice, who came to Algeria
"to walk and discover the very famous caves of the region"
, according to one of his guides, crossed that of the Soldiers of the Caliphate, the armed Islamists claiming to be part of the Islamic State (IS) group.
We are in September 2014 and from Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seduces Algerian jihadists disappointed by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
The group kidnaps the 55-year-old Frenchman and films his beheading.
Four months of research
More than six years after the events, the trial for his assassination is due to open in Algiers on Thursday.
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