One of Algeria's most powerful military figures who recently fell from grace, Major General Abdelkader Haddad, fled the country aboard a speedboat for Spain fearing for his life, according to Spanish newspaper El Confidencial. Haddad, better known by his nickname Nasser El Djinn (“the Devil”), headed the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), Algeria's most influential intelligence service, for nearly a year. The charges against the former close associate of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, whose re-election Haddad supported in September 2024, remain unknown. Sources in the Algerian diaspora and Spanish police told Cembrero that Haddad crossed the Mediterranean by boat and reached Alicante. Algeria has had five heads of the DGSI and seven heads of the foreign intelligence service since Tebboune came to power in 2019.