Beloumi and Interpol

The President of the Algerian Olympic Committee, Mustapha Berraf, announced yesterday the final settlement of the famous case between the Algerian football star Lakhdar Belloumi and the Egyptian doctor ‘Ahmed Abdelmounaim.’ This case has disabled the Algerian football star, preventing him even leave the country because of the questionable case of aggression which had caused injury to the doctor.

The Egyptian doctor, ‘Ahmed Abdelhadi Abdelmounaim Ahmed,’ had filed a complaint in the Egyptian justice after being shot in the eye with broken glass, Belloumi accused of being the aggressor despite the presence of all Algerian players who had confirmed the innocence of the latter.

Despite this evidence, Egyptian Justice contacted Interpol issuing an international arrest warrant against the Algerian player, which has been denied leaving the national territory even to go to Mecca. The football star The World cup in Gijon in Spain in 1982 has long been affected by this situation.

The settlement of this case came after a conciliation meeting which took place last Tuesday in Cairo in presence of the President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee General Mounir Thabet and the President of the Algerian Olympic Committee Mustapha Berraf and the Egyptian doctor 'Abdelmounaim Ahmed Ahmed Abdelhadi,' according to a report signed by the presidents of two Olympic committees.

At the end of the conciliation meeting, Dr. Ahmed Abdelmounaim signed a letter in the presence of the presidents of the two Olympic committees (Algeria and Egypt), informing the Attorney General of Cairo of the withdrawal of any rights and any action against Lakhdar Belloumi according to the release.

In that letter, Dr. Abdelmounaim asks the Attorney General in Cairo to cancel the international arrest warrant issued by Interpol against Lakhdar Belloumi.

Furthermore, an agreement was signed to cancel any lawsuit between Dr. Abdelmounaim and the President of the Algerian Olympic Committee, being the representative of Lakhdar Belloumi in the presence of counsel for both parties.

It was also made the signature of an act of abandonment, published and registered in the court of ‘El Jadid’, regarding any criminal or civil prosecution proceedings against the former Algerian football star.