Wearing a long white Camis and armed with a hammer and iron bar, the bearded man vandalized the 19th-century old Algerian monument. Many passersby tried to stop him, some by throwing stones at the vandal. Two police officers eventually climbed the statue, one of them sneaking behind him while the other tried to distract him. Others have associated this decivilizing act of destruction to similar acts perpetrated by the Islamic State organization, that previously caused damage to significant cultural heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. However, this is not the first vandalism act that this female statue has suffered.

A closed Facebook group pushing back against the conservative drive has attracted more than 3, members. Sara, 27, who founded the group, was motivated to take action after going to a beach with her family to celebrate the end of Ramadan. We can sometimes find ourselves alone in a bikini, when we have always been in the majority. Posts on social media featured photographs of women in bikinis alongside messages such as "Where are your fathers?

Mohamed Garne was 29 when he finally found his mother, Kheira, in She was living in a hole between two graves in an Algiers cemetery, which she had covered with a tarpaulin and a door. She came out of her hovel brandishing a hatchet and Mohamed cried out: "I am your son.