Aged 45, the man had been missing since 1998. He was found kidnapped in his neighbor’s house in central Algeria on Tuesday, May 14.
A 45-year-old Algerian, missing for 26 years, was found kidnapped at his neighbor’s house in a village in central Algeria, authorities announced Tuesday, May 14. The man, who mysteriously disappeared without a trace in 1998, was found in a neighbor’s house.
The house was searched by the gendarmes following a denunciation published on social networks, said in a press release the office of the prosecutor of the governorate of Djelfa, 300 km from Algiers, where these incredible events took place.
The neighbor lived as if nothing had happened
According to local media, the man was held in his neighbor’s cattle pen in the village of El-Guédid.
Relatives, cited by media, claimed that during his captivity the man could see and hear his family members through an opening in the enclosure “but was unable to scream or flee due to a spell that her captor had thrown her.”
The prosecution said the suspect, a 61-year-old local municipal employee who lived as if nothing had happened all these years, was arrested and will be tried following his interrogation.