Justice Minister Tayeb Louh underlined Thursday in Algiers that the Algerian justice “is carrying out its work normally concerning Tibhirine case.”
In a statement to APS on the sidelines of a plenary session of the Council of the Nation, the minister said that an “Algerian judge is at present in France as part of letters rogatory.”
“Legal procedures have been taken, respected and followed in accordance with the law at the level of the examining magistrate in charge of the case,” said Louh.  
The lawyer of Tibhirine’s monks denounced Thursday in Paris a “confiscation of evidence by Algeria which refused that the French examining judge returns to France with the samples taken from the mortal remains of the monks.”
In a press conference in Paris, Patrick Baudouin broached the “terrible disappointment of the families of Tibhirine’s monks to see the investigations blocked by this refusal to transfer to France the samples taken” by the team of judge Marc Trevidic.
Louh said in June that “there is no disagreement between Algeria and France concerning the investigation into the assassination of the seven monks of Tibhirine,” underlining that “the Algerian and French judges in charge of the case are working in close collaboration.”