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

Record ID: 573950

  • Title: ALGERIA: Tributes paid to murdered police chief Ali Tounsi before burial at Algiers Police Academy
  • Date: 27th February 2010
  • Summary: MINISTER OF STATES ABDELAZIZ BELKHADEM PAYING TRIBUTE TO ALI TOUNSI ABDELAZIZ BELKHADEM TALKING TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF ALI TOUNSI VARIOUS DEPARTURE OF THE BODY OF ALI TOUNSI, BEING CARRIED BY POLICE OFFICERS DEPARTURE OF THE BODY OF ALI TOUNSI ESCORTED BY THE POLICE BIKERS
  • Embargoed: 14th March 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Algeria
  • Country: Algeria
  • Topics: Police
  • Reuters ID: LVA82MXXNJ99DIVBD2KCBN6UT3MR
  • 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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