Saïd Mohammedi

In the 1991 documentary The Algerian Years, Mohammedi detailed the activities of his soldiers who took part in the massacre of Melouza, against the messalists. At the end of his life, he was a supporter of the Islamic Salvation Front, which he saw as a popular movement capable of changing the regime in place.

In 1965, he became a member of the Revolutionary Council, after Houari Boumédiène took power. In 1967, during the commemoration of the death of Amirouche Aït Hamouda in the village of Tassaft Ouguemoun, he gave a last meeting in which he denounced the autocratic policy of Boumédiène. He designated him by name as a despot and a dictator. The latter assigned him under house arrest for three years.

Mohammedi was elected at the Congress of Tripoli to be a member of the Political Bureau, responsible for the Education and Public Health sector. Deputy of Tizi Ouzou on 20 September 1962, and he was appointed Minister of Former Mujahedin and War Victims in the first government of Ahmed Ben Bella. On 16 May 1963, he became 2nd vice-president of the Council, and member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the FLN on 24 April 1964. He was dismissed by Ben Bella and lost his ministerial post during the reshuffle of 2 December 1964.

During the years 1957, elements of the MNA, supported by the French army, organized military actions against the ALN, eliminating soldiers and officers. In retaliation for these actions, Lieutenant Bariki organized an attack against the messalist centers considered to be counter revolutionary.

In 1957, he was appointed First Chief of the Military Organization Committee (COM) by the CCE. After a first reorganization, he was in charge of the COM Est, which brought together representatives of Wilaya I, II and III. During a second reorganization of the COM, he was appointed Minister of State of the GPRA, until the independence of Algeria.

In 1956, he participated in the Soummam congress with Krim Belkacem, of whom he was the first Deputy, to dissipate he became First Colonel of Wilaya III, with the commanders Amirouche Aït Hamouda, Abderrahmane Mira and Hamai Mohand Oukaci as deputy. He also became a member of the CNRA.

Saïd Mohammedi was an activist for the North African Star, the PPA and the MTLD. He made contact with the resistance as soon as he was released from prison in 1952.

In the summer of 1944, along with five others (Algerians and Germans), he was sent by the Abwehr on intelligence and sabotage missions to Algeria, but was arrested in the region of Tebessa and sentenced to life in prison but paroled after a few years. He was known for always wearing his Wehrmacht steel helmet during Algerian War.

Colonel Saïd Mohammedi (Arabic: السعيد محمدي; 27 December 1912 – 6 December 1994), or Si Nacer, was an Algerian nationalist and politician.