Eight suspects have been charged for their involvement in the kidnapping of Omar bin Omran, the Algerian man who was held captive in his neighbor’s basement for nearly 27 years.
Omar vanished from his family home in El Guedid, Djelfa, when he was 17. His family believed all along that he was among the estimated 200,000 people killed or up to 20,000 people abducted during the bloody Algerian Civil War, which lasted from 1992 to 2002.
The man was rescued on May 12 after the sister of a neighbor hinted at his whereabouts in a social media post amid an inheritance dispute with her brother.
