The 59-year-old Algerian national was arrested in Montpellier on January 5 after making violent comments on TikTok. Algeria having refused to welcome him, he was sent back to France. He was presented to a judge of freedoms and detention, in Meaux, this Sunday, January 12.
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Tossed between France and Algeria. Expelled to his country and returned to France, Algerian influencer Ami Boualem will remain in an administrative detention center for 26 more days. It was the decision of the Meaux court which was to rule on his fate on Sunday January 12.
Known as Ami Boualem, as well as “Doualemn”, the 59-year-old Algerian, who has 168,000 subscribers on TikTok, was arrested in Montpellier on January 5 after making violent comments on the same social network.
Expelled to Algeria which had refused to welcome him, he was put on a plane for France and placed in an administrative detention center in the Paris region. The affair had further deteriorated the already very tense relations between Algeria and France. A diplomatic situation which, according to his lawyers, would have weighed on the fate reserved for the influencer.
“My colleague Marie David-Bellouard and I deplore the decision to extend the stay in the administrative detention center, which was made in a tense political and diplomatic situation and for which our client is paying the price.
The particularly fierce determination shown by the Minister of the Interior against Boualem is part of an ultra-repressive context against foreigners.
Lawyer of the Algerian influencer
It should nevertheless be remembered that the issuance of an expulsion order and placement in a detention center must meet legal requirements. We are therefore appealing the order of the judge of freedoms and detention before the Paris Court of Appeal. “, continues the lawyer in a press release.
In a video addressed to people who had wanted to demonstrate against the Algerian regime on January 1, he called for “giving a severe correction to a man residing” in Algeria. The prefect of Hérault, François-Xavier Lauch, had ordered the withdrawal of his residence permit and his expulsion, while the investigation by the Montpellier public prosecutor’s office and the translations of his publications carried out by two interpreters had not revealed any call for murder.
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