Fatiha Boudiaf

Death of Mohamed Boudiaf

Boudiaf was the second wife of the Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf. She has denounced the official investigation of her husband's assassination, suggesting that it was not the work of a lone fanatic but part of a greater plot. She has attempted to visit Lambarek Boumaarafi, the man who was convicted of the murder of her husband, while he is in prison, but this request has been refused by the authorities.

She has theorised that the person who killed her husband hid under the table in front of him at the time and is yet to be arrested. In 2016, she accused four former senior army officers of the murder of her husband, and sent an open letter to the former President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, demanding that the case was reopened.