Stories of exile.. the wedding procession accompanied by the intelligence of Houari Boumediene
A black car stopped in front of an apartment building in the middle of the capital's streets. Three members of the Secret Intelligence Service got off. One of the elements stood guarding the gate, while the rest of the elements were heading to the top floor quickly.
The story is not an arrest, arrest, or night raid, but a wedding procession sponsored by secret intelligence agents during the years of President Houari Boumediene's rule.
Minutes later, the security personnel go down with a girl who knows the white wedding dress, and whoever was on the sidewalk hurries to open the car gate. street space.
The story is not an arrest, arrest or night raid, but a wedding procession sponsored by secret intelligence agents during the years of President Houari Boumediene's rule. Its heroine was Zahra Salami, and the groom was a prisoner under house arrest, ousted President Ahmed Ben Bella.
Who is Zahra Salami?
Zahra Salami grew up in France, from an Algerian father from the city of M’sila and a fighter in the French Federation of the National Liberation Front, and a French mother, after independence the family settled in Algiers, the first years of independence Zahra was known for her leftist struggle and sympathy with the global revolutionary movements and all the leftist and communist anti-imperialist organizations and racism
She joined the weekly newspaper "The African Revolution" in the French language, and also specialized in liberation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
His colleague in the newspaper and struggle, Elaine Mokhtafi, describes her, "Zahra Salami has courage and strength of character, she was very emotional and sensitive, and often responded to provocations in a violent manner. And her inability to speak Arabic or Darija, but she was confirming that she was one hundred percent Algerian.
First meeting with Ben Bella
The first meeting that Zahra Salami met with Ahmed Ben Bella was during a press interview between Salami from the newspaper “The African Revolution,” and Ahmed Ben Bella was the President of the Republic at the time. The President, as Salami was of the opinion that Ahmed Ben Bella deviated from the revolutionary and socialist path and defected from the Cultural Revolution.
Zahra Salami is behind the escape of the opponent's wife, Mohamed Boudiaf
Zahra Salami was an activist from the "Maoist" movement and a political opponent of Ahmed Ben Bella's rule. She opposed the arrest campaign that affected opponents of Ben Bella's rule. Zahra took her place in a hospital bed so that Boudiaf's wife managed to escape.
Zahra Salami was identified as the "smuggler", arrested and held for several days.
The hardest decision.
Zahra Salami was 19 years younger than Ahmed Ben Bella, as he had been spending his house arrest in prison for eight years, and Ahmed Ben Bella's mother dreamed of getting married before her departure to the courtyard, as the boy is all of her four sons and two daughters.
In 1972, an elderly woman called her, and at the tea table, the lady asked Zahra many accurate questions, similar to security investigations. Media sources said that the woman was the mother of the deposed Ahmed Ben Bella.
A few days later, Muhammad Al-Hajj Ismail, the former Minister of Justice during the rule of Ahmed Ben Bella, called. Hajj Ismail was among the limited personalities allowed to link the relationship between Ahmed Ben Bella and his family members.
Haj Ismail informed Zahra Salami of a mission entrusted to him by the former president, which is to accept the marriage of Ahmed Ben Bella. At first, when the news was announced, Zahra Salami was shocked by the proposal of marriage, how she relates to a person she had opposed politically while he was in prison.
On the other hand, Zahra did not reject the marriage proposal, but rather asked to meet the prisoner Si Ahmed, Zahra Salami says to some of her close ones. The first time Ben Bella opened the door to his residence, love and admiration infiltrated her heart, and without lengthening and details, the marriage ceremony was prepared within a few days.
Excuse me, Mr. President, Zahra is a free woman
The report of the steps and projects of Ahmed Ben Bella's marriage was reaching the office of President Houari Boumediene, and when he was informed that the nominated bride is Zahra Salami, Boumediene summoned Zahra Salami's father and tried to convince him not to agree and incite him to refuse, saying, "Ahmed Ben Bella is my opponent."
Zahra Salami's father responded decisively: My daughter is a free woman, I have always trusted her - she was the only person in my family who knew my secret revolutionary activities and helped me a lot in the mission, she was brave - Sorry Mr. President, I can't tell my daughter whom to marry, that's her decision.
Boumediene got to know Zahra Salami during many press and media interviews, and it is circulated that Zahra Salami was among the women whom Houari admired in the framework of a project and his search for a wife.
The life of Rebekah Ben Bella
After the marriage contract between Zahra Salami and Ahmed Ben Bella, Zahra's life changed and became full of political and militant activity, and her foreign relations were cut off, whether under pressure from the intelligence services of Qasdi Merbah, or by her will so as not to harm her friends and colleagues, and throughout the period of house arrest in Masila, Zahra Rebekah bin Rather, a romantic life was adorned with a lot of reading and writing.
After the death of Houari Boumediene, President Chadli Bendjedid decided in 1980 to release Ahmed Ben Bella, so the couple chose to live in exile between Paris and Geneva.
In 2010, Zahra Salami died in Paris after a terminal illness. She had an official funeral attended by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and senior state officials. She was honored and noted for her revolutionary, family and personal path.
After Zahra passed away from life, Ahmed bin Bella passed away at the age of 94
Like Houari Boumediene, the husband Ahmed Ben Bella and Zahra Salami did not have children, but they adopted a boy and two daughters. After Zahra passed away, Ahmed Ben Bella died at the age of 94, and after a career he spent in struggle and between prison and exile.
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