To Algiers, as of last March, the process of eliminating stray dogs and cats, which many animal-friendly activists continue to denounce, was banned. An unexpected victory against Galoufa! The story dates back to the end of the 19the century in this Algiers suburb of Bab el-Oued, when the municipality of Algiers, alerted by cases of rabies transmitted by stray dogs, instructed a certain Garufa, of Spanish origin, to capture them. Armed with his whip-lasso and pulling his cart with animal cages, Garufa becomes the bogeyman that mothers invoke in front of their children in the evening to keep them quiet. The Algerian Albert Camus cites this practice of hunting stray dogs in The First Man to portray the bravery of the children of his neighborhood…
