Algeria: Abdelaziz Bouteflika, died in oblivion but spared by justice

Correspondent in Algiers

Thousands of Algerians had gathered on the balconies and along the roadsides, waiting for the passage of the convoy that would lead him, like a king, to the cemetery of El Alia where the presidents and the men who made of Algeria an independent country.

They were also thousands to go to pray and mourn him at the great mosque, the largest in Africa, pharaonic construction site of his reign finally completed and to which he had given, after a general plebiscite, his name.

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Such funerals, Abdelaziz Bouteflika had surely imagined them dozens of times.

But the History he so fiercely wanted to enter as a father of the nation decided otherwise.

It is therefore forgotten by his country and his people that the former Algerian president, whose death was announced by a laconic press release from the presidency on the evening of September 17, has joined eternity and the pantheon of presidents. fallen.

The fall

Since his last appearance in a dressing gown, a

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