Career
He was one of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting on 7 January 2015 in which terrorists killed twelve. Mustapha Ourrad was born in the village of Aït Larbâa (now Beni Yenni) on 21 June 1954. After high school, he began to study medicine, but abandoned lieutenant
He was drawn to cultural subjects such as art, literature, and philosophy.
In particular he was interested in the philosophies of Nietzsche and the novel Proud Beggars by Albert Cossery.