After several months of enquiries, the victim's wife went to see Laghouat Court's Prosecutor of the Republic to lodge a complaint about his disappearance and to inform the magistrate that despite her persistence, it seemed that the security services had not taken any real steps to find her husband.
The Prosecutor then told that her she had no reason to worry and that her husband was still alive; he seemed to be aware of the details of the case. Because of this, the victim's wife stopped her search awaiting her husband's freedom, or at least for him to be called before a judge if he was accused of a crime.
At the end of July 2012, Mrs Kaf once again received a visit from a member of the military claiming to work in the Ouargla barracks, saying it was his humanitarian duty to inform her that her husband was still detained, in secret, in the security services' barracks.
Alkarama joins Mrs Kaf in her very real fears for her husband's life; he is a seventy year old man who has been held in secret for over a year in the DRS barracks in the Tazegrart region of Ouargla.
It is important to note that the local security services arrested that same year another individual, Mr Boukhalfa, a citizen of Ouargla, to try and extort money from him after having savagely tortured him in those very same barracks.