[MAGHAREBIA] A Béchar court on Wednesday (March 13th) sentenced a former Algerian police commissioner to death for the 2010 premeditated murder of a female colleague, El Watan reported on Wednesday (March 13th).Abdelkrim Boutrik, the ex-police chief in Adrar, cut the throat of 35-year-old police officer Cherifa Hadj Brahim.
The victim had "irrefutable evidence" of Boutrik's involvement in an alcohol trafficking network, prosecutors said.
"This killer deserves to be put to death at once. He killed an adorable girl who was loved by everyone in Adrar," one woman said outside the courthouse.