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A court in Ain Temouchent, a province in northwestern Algeria, sentenced on Sunday, November the 4th, a Moroccan national to 12 years in prison for «spying on Algeria for the benefit of a foreign country». «His alleged associate, an Algerian man, was handed down the same prison term while a third person was acquitted of all charges», said the Algerian newspaper El Khabar.
The accused was arrested on March the 23rd while taking a video of two football clubs’ fans clashing. The Algerian police then found in his phone numbers of Moroccan officials, human rights activists in Algeria and «dangerous reports destined to the Moroccan authorities», added the same source.
For the record, in July 2017 in Bejaja, a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria, four Moroccan tourists were accused of «spying on Algeria». Three years earlier, another Moroccan national was arrested in Annaba and accused of being part of a group that broadcasted videos opposed to President Abdelaziz Boutflika’s fourth term and taken photos of a phosphate company.
