Algeria moves to restore death penalty for deliberate forest fires
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for deliberately setting forest fires after a recent wave of blazes killed 12 people.
Algeria’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that 12 people had died in the latest wave of wildfires across several eastern provinces, according to local media.
The death penalty is already provided for under Algeria’s criminal code for several offences, but the country has observed a de facto moratorium on executions since 1993.
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