Career
Twenty days after the assassination, a commission of inquiry named immediately after the assassination made its finding: it was a conspiracy. He was part of a special operations group (geographic information system or geographical information science) dependent on Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (DRS) responsible for various law enforcement operations. A brigade which, theoretically, was not charged with ensuring the safety of president Boudiaf.
This situation, and its confusing explanations, have cast doubt on the reasons that led his superiors to assign him that day where as the protection of the Algerian president
During the mutiny of Algiers Serkadji prison, in June 1995, that killed 100 people, including 96 prisoners, his disappearance was discussed. lieutenant was a false rumor.
He is still in prison, and in June 2007, his father says that he was not the assassin.