Hachani was shot by an assassin in the waiting room of a dental clinic in the Bab El Oued district of Algiers on November 22, 1999, and subsequently died in hospital.
The rue Bab Azoun which runs parallel to the boulevard de la Republique and crosses the rue Bab El Oued in the city center.
Towards the end of the Algerian War of Independence, the neighbourhood became the stronghold of the Organisation de l'armée secrète, until OAS attacks on the French Army led them to assault and purge the neighbourhood, during the siege of Bab el Oued on March 1962.
The OAS decided to dig in in their stronghold of Bab El Oued (a traditionally European working class area) to fight the Evian Agreements by force.
Pierre Claverie, (born in Bab El Oued, Algiers, Algeria on 8 May 1938 - died on 1 August 1996) was an assassinated French Catholic priest of the Dominican Order which was Roman Catholic bishop of Oran.
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Yahia Benmabrouk (1928 – 2004) is an Algerian comedian and film actor, born on March 30 on 1928 in Algiers and dead on October 8, 2004 in Bab El Oued.