Chalmouni Abdelkader was born on 14 July 1923 to Ahmed Shalmouni and Raji Yamna in the neighborhoods of Zanqat El Nwar and Douiret, Blida.
He worked as a laborer and later as a nursing assistant at the Frantz Fanon Psychiatric Hospital, collaborating with Dr. Fanon.
During the struggle for independence, he joined the National Liberation Front and supplied medicines to wounded fighters. Unfortunately, betrayal led to his arrest. The authorities took him to Blida Prison and tortured him, piercing his hands with nails to force him to reveal information. He refused to betray his comrades, as his family later learned from a prison worker.
The authorities then transferred him to Hawach El Shno, a torture center, where he endured electric shocks and other severe methods until he fell into a coma. His wife, Khira Ben Ghna, attempted to bring him food, but he was already at death’s door. He passed away in 1958.
The occupiers took his body to the morgue on Bouaiba, and he was buried in Sidi Hlou Cemetery in Blida. His family lived under constant fear and threat from the authorities.
He was martyred in 1958.
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