Background and career
Mohamed Ali Akid (5 July 1949 – 11 April 1979) was a Tunisian football forward who played for the Tunisia national team. He was part of the Tunisian squad that participated in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Akid also played for CS Sfaxien and Al-Riyadh.
The circumstances surrounding the death have fuelled a controversy between his surviving family and the authorities. His family requested an autopsy, which was conducted on July 18, 2012, to determine the cause of his death and confirmed the presence of two shots in his body and the son of Akid confirmed the implication of the Crown prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The official version was that Akid was struck by lightning during a training session at his Saudi Arabian club Al-Riyadh on 11 April 1979.
