France – A street in France’s north-east city, Nancy, has been named in memory of Matoub Lounes, a popular Amazigh singer, who was assassinated in 1998.
After the decision was made public, the municipal council of the city of Nancy, announced that the public inauguration ceremony will take place on June 25, on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Matoub Lounes.
Matoub Lounes is a well known Amazigh Kabyle singer and Poet who was a prominent advocate of the Amazigh cause and secularism in Algeria. Born in the village of Taourirt Moussa in Kabylia.Â
On 25 June 1998, Matoub’s car was stopped at a roadblock while the car was fired upon by masked gunmen, killing Matoub and wounding his wife, Matoub’s family and Kabyle people still accuse the Algerian regime of his assasination, while the Algerian regime putting the blame on the Islamist terrorists of this crime.[ads2]
