According to Algerian prosecutors, eight people have been charged after a man who disappeared 26 years ago was found alive near his family’s home inside of a neighbor’s basement.
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A few days ago, we reported that an Algerian man named Omar Bin Omran, who went missing in 1998 at 18/19 years old, was found alive last weekend in the cellar of his alleged kidnapper’s home that sits only 100 yards from his family’s home in Algeria.
Before the missing man was rescued on Sunday (May 5) from the home of his longtime captor, he reportedly went missing nearly 27 years ago when he was on his way to vocational school. Omran, who is now 45 years old, was saved from his neighbor’s basement, which sat below a hay-covered floor in an apparent sheep pen.
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During the Alegerian man’s rescue, a video was recorded showing him looking completely disheveled and confused. The man’s alleged captor, a 61-year-old man who lived alone and was previously accused of killing Omran’s dog, was taken into police custody, according to the Djelfa Attorney General’s Office.
It’s reported that after the Algerian man’s disappearance, his dog would linger outside the suspect’s home until it went missing for a month. Shortly after its disappearance, the dog’s body was found in front of Omran’s family’s home, believed to have been poisoned.
The Attorney General’s Office also revealed that investigators were reportedly tipped off by the suspect’s brother. It’s reported that the two were fighting over inheritance on social media and the suspect’s brother suggested that he was involved in Omran’s kidnapping in a post. The victdim’s family member saw the post and alerted law enforcement, which led to the National Gendarmerie reopening Omran’s investigation; during which the 61-year-old man’s home was searched and revealed a trapdoor hidden underneath hay on the floor was discovered.
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After Omran was rescued, his has been offered treatment, both physically and psychologically, and his alleged captor was arrested and set to stand trial. Since the arrest of the 61-year-old unnamed suspect, Algerian prosecutors say they have detained six more suspects and have placed two others under judicial supervision, meaning they can remain free until trial. The latter two suspects were charged with abetting a crime by concealing Omran’s location and not informing authorities.
In a statement, Algeria’s Judicial Council said, “A judicial investigation has been opened against the main suspect for the crime of kidnapping and luring a person, detaining a person without an order from the competent authorities and outside the cases permitted by the law, as well as human trafficking of a victim in a status of vulnerability.”
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