Plusieurs candidats arrêtés – Le Jeune Indépendant

Even if it was significantly less widespread compared to previous years, cheating in baccalaureate exams still took place in different regions of the country. In this context, two people aged respectively 23 and 26 were arrested by the judicial police of the 2nd urban security of Béjaïa last Tuesday. One who is a candidate is accused of having cheated in the exam and the other, his sister, of having helped him.

To get the answers for the exam, one of the candidates used wireless headphones to contact her sister who was already outside to help her. “One of the candidates contacted her sister who was outside the center who communicated to her the answers of the exam,” indicates the wilaya security in a press release, adding that the judicial police of the 2e Urban Security received a call from the education department denouncing the cheating candidates.

They were caught by exam proctors cheating by using wireless headphones. The two sisters were arrested and taken directly to the city police station to be questioned. They were presented in immediate appearance and sentenced to one year in prison with a fine of 50,000 DA.

In the wilaya of Sétif, three people were sentenced to one year in prison each and a fine of 200,000 DA for fraud in the bac exams, according to a press release from the public prosecutor at the Ain Oulmane prosecutor’s office. “In accordance with the provisions of article 11 of the code of criminal procedure, the suspects were presented on June 11 before the public prosecutor at the court of Ain Oulmane, following the immediate appearance procedure, for the offense of offense against “integrity of examinations, through the use of means of distance communication and offense of attempted leakage of subjects and answers of final secondary education exams, through the use of means of distance communication”, specifies the press release . Tried the same day, the “respondents were found guilty of the offense of undermining the integrity of the baccalaureate exams” indicates the press release, specifying that they were charged with this offense.

The suspects were each sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 200,000 Algerian dinars, with confiscation of “the seized items”.

Furthermore, the Tizi Ouzou court pronounced, on Tuesday, a sentence of two to two years in prison, accompanied by a fine of 100,000 DA against two women involved in a case of leaking of responses from the examination, indicates a press release from the Republic package to this court. “In application of the provisions of article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and as part of securing the progress of the baccalaureate, a case of fraud by a candidate, via a means of remote communication, was recorded during the 1st day of the exam at the Mokhbi-Mohand exam center in the new town of Tizi-Ouzou,” read the press release.

This case of fraud took place “using a small VIP Smart type device, equipped with a SIM chip and operating remotely via Bluetooth, to communicate with a female person who was outside the center examination,” it was clarified.