The newspaper’s front page is designed like a death announcement, with a black stripe in the corner and a headline saying “Thank you and goodbye” in red.
The front page reads: “After 30 years of intellectual adventure, Liberty is extinguished.”
She added, “The curtain has been brought down on Liberte, our newspaper, and your newspaper, which for thirty years carried the ideals of democracy and freedom and formed the mouthpiece of Algeria that is moving forward.”
The newspaper’s famous cartoonist, Ali Daylam, also signed his last drawing in the journal, showing a wooden coffin bearing the name Liberte with a hammer and a nail under the title “The Last Closure”.
For his part, Issad Rebrab said in a statement published by the newspaper: “To the citizens and friends of the newspaper who expressed their desire to continue publishing it, and to those who did not understand the reasons (for closing it), I assure that its economic situation affords it only a short respite.”
Issad Rebrab is considered the second richest man in the Arab world, according to Forbes magazine, whose fortune is estimated at 3.8 billion dollars.
After the emergence of several experiences with the opening of the media scene to the private sector at the end of the eighties, Algeria witnessed the suspension of publications, including “Le Matin”, “La Tribune” and “La Nacion”, over the past twenty years due to poor advertising revenues and low sales.
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