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Live from Algeria Part with Abdou Semmar: a young 35-year-old Air Algérie pilot has been making headlines since December 8 following his arrest at Algiers International Airport with more than 100,000 euros hidden under his clothes. This information was reported exclusively by Algeria Part on December 11. This pilot is called Amir Hamza and he was quickly arrested by the security services and will have to appear today, December 12, before the Dar El Beida court to answer charges of trafficking and illicit transfers of foreign currency abroad. But it turns out according to the investigations that we have started a news story on this unprecedented case that this young pilot is hardly a notorious trafficker or an active member of a mafia network of money laundering or embezzlement and evasion of foreign currency from Algeria to abroad. Coming from a wealthy family in Algiers, this young pilot converted a personal inheritance into foreign currency to go to Spain where he has been fighting for 2 years before the Spanish courts to be able to recover his 8-year-old son who was taken from him by his ex-wife who fled Algeria to settle in Spain. And with the money he illegally hid under his clothes at the Algiers airport, he hoped to be able to use it in Spain to buy a studio and provide proof of housing as well as financial resources that could allow him to benefit from visitation and accommodation rights for his son. The story of a dramatic affair.