Ali Tounsi (died February 25, 2010) was the Chief

Chief of police

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 of Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

's national police force. He was shot dead in his office in Algiers

Algiers

' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...

 by a senior police official, with whom he was arguing at the time. The official, said to be the chief of national police schools, was described as having acted during "an attack of madness". One source stated that other nearby officers returned fire; others indicated that it was Tounsi himself who wounded his attacker. The official statement released by the Interior Ministry said that the gunman had shot himself and was taken to a hospital. Two other people were said to have been injured in the attack. An inquiry

Inquiry

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into the killing has been opened.

At the time of his death Tounsi had been the chief of the National Police for over a decade.