Mohamed Mechkarini (1896–1935) is a Kabylerebel who attacked colonial administrators in the early twentieth century. Finally captured, he was arrested on January 6, 1929.
Mohamed Mechkarini had joined a group of Algerian soldiers in the garrison of Miliana, with his friend Zemmouri Ben Kada, to operate a massive desertion of the ranks of the French army to begin the preparation for a rebellion independence in Algeria.[2]
Volunteered in 1914, his colleague Zemmouri Ben Kada, after the regulatory instruction, was directed in France on the front, and on May 24, 1915, being sentinel to one of the listening posts, his company, the 10th, being on duty, he passed to the enemy, carrying his weapons with one of his comrades named Sellaf.[4]
These facts soon became known to the Regiment depot at Miliana, where it was noted.[5]
Mohamed Mechkarini, having learned of the desertion of his friend Zemmouri, he prepared for five months his departure from the barrenison before performing his action on October 17, 1915.[6]
Having been taken prisoner in Germany, Zemmouri soon suffered the effects of the propaganda which was made in the native prison camps for the recruitment of the Turkish army, and consented to serve in the enemy ranks.
However, Zemmouri returned to his depot at Miliana on January 25, 1920, and was demobilized on March 4, without being disturbed.
Shortly after his liberation, Zemmouri, probably believing that everything was forgotten, had the unfortunate idea to give sign of life.
He came to the depot of his former regiment to demand a payback, arguing that his
former prisoner and wounded.
Searches were made and notes about him reappeared. Zemmouri was arrested and prosecuted.
He confessed to the facts after initially indicating that he had been injured during a patrol and taken prisoner.[7]
At the hearing, at the end of the trial, the accused made inappropriate assessments of the skirmisher regiments.[9]
Zemmouri was tried according to the Code of Military Justice for the Army, following articles 235 to 239 relating to desertion abroad and desertion to the enemy.[10]
The Algiers Military Council sentenced him to death.[11]
During the meeting, Captain Boutet was the government commissioner, while the defense of Zemmouri was provided by the lawyer Emile Morinaud.[12]
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