Unimaginable crime in Ghardaïa (600 kilometers south of Algiers) where four children were strangled and burned by their own father. The bodies of the victims were discovered on Wednesday December 11. The public prosecutor at the court of this southern Algerian city delivered this Sunday, December 15, the chilling details of this crime which is setting all of Algeria in turmoil.
According to the magistrate, the quadruple crime was committed on Tuesday December 10 around 3:15 p.m. The man named KA, whose age was not specified, made his four boys born from a first marriage believe that he took a car ride. Two of the children are 11-year-old twins and the other two are aged 4 and 5.
His plan was to kill them in a secluded place, out of sight. Along the way, he bought 5 liters of gasoline and a lighter. He then headed directly towards an uninhabited area at a place called Oued Nechou, where there are only houses under construction. Arriving there, he strangled them one by one, then doused them with gasoline before setting their bodies on fire, according to the prosecutor.
According to the forensic doctor at Ghardaïa hospital who carried out the autopsies, the four children died from strangulation and inhalation of toxic smoke and their bodies suffered third-degree burns.
The chilling details of the quadruple infanticide of Ghardaïa
It was the suspect who told all these details to the gendarmerie investigators and the investigating judge, according to the same source. Because it didn't take long for him to be arrested. After his crime, he abandoned his vehicle, broke it and threw away his cell phone (which was found by investigators), before taking the road to the town of Heuraoua, in the wilaya of Algiers, to visit his second wife.
As soon as he arrived, the next day, Wednesday December 11 at 5 a.m., he told his wife everything. She helped him calm down and as soon as he fell asleep, she went to report the crime to the local gendarmerie.
The Algiers gendarmes then made contact with their colleagues from Ghardaïa who went to the scene of the crime where they discovered an unbearable scene: four charred corpses of children, near a wastewater drain under construction.
The man confessed everything and recounted the gruesome details of the crime. According to the prosecutor, the suspect explained that he acted in this way because he was experiencing a period of “ pressures ».
Presented this Sunday, December 15 before an investigating judge of the Ghardaïa court, the suspect was imprisoned and charged with “ premeditated homicide of ascendants, torture and barbaric acts » on the basis of articles 254, 255, 256, 257, 261 and 262 of the Penal Code.
ON THE SAME SUBJECT:
News in the case of the attempted murder of a judge in Mostaganem
Related News :