
In this file photo taken on August 18, 2022, an elderly Algerian woman stands in front of her home, destroyed in a wildfire in the city of el-Kala
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Forty-nine people have been sentenced to die for lynching an innocent good Samaritan painter, according to defence lawyers and a state news agency.
Djamel Ben Ismail was dragged into the main square in the village of Larbaa Nath Irathen, Algeria, and attacked by locals who wrongly accused him of starting devastating wildfires - apparently because he was not from the area.