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Lakhdar Bouregaa, 87, was infected with coronavirus. This independence veteran was also a figure for the Hirak protest movement calling for a change in the system at the head of the country.
Lakhdar Bouregaa was highly respected by the youth of Hirak. They saw in him a bridge between the 1954 revolution to end colonization and Hirax to free himself from a system that, according to activists, strangled the country and its youth.
His arrest a year and a half ago sparked outrage in Algeria. He then declared: “I feel sorry for the judge who is putting me in jail without being able to look me in the eye”. His supporters believed that his conviction was in itself the symbol of the abuse of justice in Algeria and that he was one of the many victims of a justice system used to silence those who opposed the regime.
Opponent, he had always been, which had earned him eight years in prison during President Boumediéne’s tenure. With his honest words, his strong stances, and his opposition to Bouteflika’s fifth term, long before Hirak, the former commander remained true to himself. In 1963, he participated in the founding of the National Liberation Front, an opposition party that has consistently defended democracy and freedoms in Algeria.
Influenced by coronavirus, at the same time as President Tebboune, he had remained for treatment in Algiers, unlike the latter evacuated to Germany. A situation that did not respond to social networks.
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