ALGERIA: Tributes paid to murdered police chief Ali Tounsi before burial at Algiers Police Academy

Record ID: 573949

  • Title: ALGERIA: Tributes paid to murdered police chief Ali Tounsi before burial at Algiers Police Academy
  • Date: 27th February 2010
  • Summary: ALGERIA, ALGIERS, (RECENT) (REUTERS) ***CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS POLICE ACADEMY OF CHATEAU NEUF (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS POLICE AGENTS AND OFFICERS (4 SHOTS) VARIOUS ARRIVAL OF THE BODY OF ALI TOUNSI COVERED BY THE ALGERIAN FLAG (3 SHOTS) VARIOUS PORTRAIT OF ALI TOUNSI (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS BODY OF ALI TOUNSI MINISTER OF INTERIOR READING THE KORAN VARIOUS POLICE OFFICIAL AND OFFICERS COMING TO PAY TRIBUTE TO ALI TOUNSI VARIOUS POLICE OFFICIALS AND OFFICERS PAYING TRIBUTE TO ALI TOUNSI VARIOUS STATE'S OFFICIALS PAYING TRIBUTE TO ALI TOUNSI
  • Embargoed: 14th March 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Algeria
  • Country: Algeria
  • Topics: Police
  • Reuters ID: LVAC6YGO0D3W65DBNT29ODJQTAIS
  • Story Text: A last tribute was paid on Friday (February 26) to the late Chief of the National Police, Ali Tounsi, at the Police Academy of Chateau Neuf before his burial at the cemetery of El Alia in Algiers.
    Members of the Government, senior police officials and officers, senior State officials and members of his family were present to honour Tounsi, who died Thursday at 73.
    Tounsi was shot dead on Thursday at his headquarters by another police official who was acting in a moment of insanity, the Interior Ministry said.
    "The death of Ali Tounsi... took place during a working session, in the course of which a police official, apparently gripped by an attack of madness, used his weapon and fatally wounded Colonel Tounsi," Algeria's official APS news agency quoted a ministry statement as saying.
    Earlier, a security source told Reuters that Tounsi, who had been national police chief for more than a decade, was shot inside his office by a senior police official with whom he was having an argument.
    "This guy was unhappy, he took out his pistol and he fired it," the source said. "Police officers nearby fired back."
    The Interior Ministry statement said that after shooting the police chief, the attacker shot himself and was now in serious condition in hospital. It made no mention of police firing back.
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