The national criminal pole to combat offenses linked to information and communication technologies as a new body in the Algerian judicial system

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The Algerian legislator has established the long-awaited national criminal pole to fight offenses linked to information and communication technologies.

the new judicial body has jurisdiction, both over offenses against automated data processing systems and ordinary offenses committed or the commission of which is facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies.

owing to a possible jurisdictional overlap between the new judicial body and other criminal judicial bodies, the Algerian legislator has conferred on the former, on the one hand, an exclusive jurisdiction over some cybercrime offenses and on the other hand, a concurrent jurisdiction with that resulting from the application of the articles 37, 40 and 329 of the code of criminal procedure.