“Algeria seeks to humiliate France”said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Friday, January 10, the day after the return to French soil of an Algerian influencer who had been deported to Algeria after the publication of a video calling for violence. “I think that we have reached an extremely worrying threshold with Algeria”added the minister, who was speaking during a trip to Nantes.
This influencer – nicknamed “Doualemn” on TikTok – was arrested on Sunday in Montpellier then deported to Algeria on Thursday, before finally being sent back to France in the evening. Algiers has it “inadmissible”explained a police source to Agence France-Presse, confirming information from the weekly Current values who got it from the Ministry of the Interior.
This 59-year-old man was arrested after a video posted on TikTok containing a call for violence. Placed on Tuesday in an administrative detention center (CRA) in Nîmes, he was taken to Paris on Thursday afternoon, from where he left by plane to Algeria, according to his lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Mousset. On Tuesday, the public prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Belargent, announced that this man would be tried on February 24 for “provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor”without placing him in pre-trial detention or under judicial supervision.
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Two other Algerians were recently arrested, one in Echirolles, near Grenoble, the other in Brest, for having posted content online calling for violent acts, often against opponents of the Algerian regime.
On Thursday, a fifty-year-old Franco-Algerian TikToker, Sofia Benlemmane, was taken into police custody in Lyon, the city’s public prosecutor, Thierry Dran, reported to Agence France-Presse. According to a police source, he is accused of having disseminated hate messages and threats against Internet users, and more generally against all people likely to oppose the Algerian regime, as well as insulting statements towards France.
On Monday, the Rhône prefecture indicated that it had made reports targeting three influencers based in Lyon, including Sofia Benlemmane, and two other TikTokers known under the names “Abdesslam Bazooka” and “Laksas06”.
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