Re: savage arrest of my son Massinissa

To the officials of the Algerian Ministry of Justice and the President of the Algeria’s Republic which my father and his fellow fighters had liberated by giving their lives against French colonialism.

Reason: my son Massinissa was arrested in my village; perpetrated as a kidnapping when a simple summon would have been enough to comply with police forces. He was placed in Blida’s jail detention (50 km, West of Algiers). I want to talk to him. Would you please send me a phone number so that I can reach him? Thank you.

It is 2024 and, unfortunately, the police and other Algerian services continue to act as gangsters of the Middle Age. In 2024, law enforcement and security officers must not behave as outlaws as they behaved with my son and several other Kabyle citizens. These “agents” are acting in the same way as France during its colonial time, particularly from 1954 to1962! My father, who’s therefore Massinissa’s grandfather, was one of the Novembers’ fighters who had shaken and made France bend their knees.

My father, like thousands of others, had fallen in combat in 1957. I don’t know his face since we don’t even have a picture of him. Nowadays, police agents, supposed to defend and protect citizens, use methods of gangsters and vulgar thugs.  Prosecutor or the local police department could have sent him a simple summons by mail or or bailiff BUT NOT SENDING GANGSTERS TO REMOVE AND SEQUESTER A CITIZEN. It is a shameful and horrendous operation that resembles bandits and thugs of another age.

My son was kidnapped and is currently detained in Blida. Why in Blida and not in Tigzirt–Tizi Ouzou, or even in Algiers? Why these barbaric attacks against our citizens?

My son was followed and intercepted when he returned from his visit to his elderly grandmother who has been suffering from a serious illness for a few months. These barbaric agents have chosen this moment in time when his grandmother needs him. Recently, my mother is seriously ill, and lives by herself, Massinissa, her grandson, is taking care of her, and now is gone against his will. He is everything to her, he is visiting her every day, and on July 28^th, police agents ambushed and kidnapped him. 

This dreadful plan was intended to punish me and make my mother suffer more in her last days. My dear mother had fought alongside her husband, and with many other fighters against France. My mother, from 1954 to 1962, had been arrested many times and detained in several incarceration centers in the region under the colonial regime of enemy–France. And today Algerian mafia and thugs make her suffer the same suffering and humiliation by those she believed to be her brothers and sisters.

Apart from the racist article 87 bis that you adopted to justify your gruesome arrests, I challenge you to present the slightest evidence to justify this abusive and inhuman action. For your information, Kabylia and all democratic countries have denounced and rejected this shameful article– (87 bis).

Release Massinissa and all our innocent detainees and come confront me before the justice of a country in which prosecutors respect fair trials and human rights, and if you present any evidence justifying my life sentence, I WILL RETURN TO BECOME A PRISONER IN YOUR JAILS INSPIRED BY THE KULAK OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.

Even in the Middle Ages, executioners did not punish or torture children in the place of their parents.

I WANT TO TALK TO MY SON NOW.

Amar Umejqan–A Kabylia’s human rights activist

St-Hubert, Quebec, Canada

Phone:438 869 4350

Email:tkdkabyle@hotmail.com