Pdetained on Tuesday in an administrative detention center (CRA) in Nîmes, “Doualemn”, a 59-year-old influencer, was arrested in Montpellier, after a video posted on TikTok.
He had been put on a plane Thursday afternoon, according to his lawyer, but Algeria “inadmissible”, the Interior Ministry said Thursday evening.
He was placed in the evening at the CRA du Mesnil-Amelot (Seine-et-Marne), northeast of Paris, the same source said.
Expulsion before judgment
“My client was refused by the Algerian authorities. So he is on a return flight to Paris”, declared his Montpellier lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Mousset, in a message to AFP.
The French government has “precipitated his expulsion” to prevent her “can be examined by a judge”, had previously regretted the lawyer, denouncing the “exceptional means” implemented for “gag” his client, who was to be tried in Montpellier on February 24.
If the translation of one of his videos reported on Saturday by the socialist mayor of Montpellier and the prefect of Hérault finally established that the term “kill him” had not been pronounced, this “called on the other hand to give a severe correction to a man appearing to reside in Algeria”, clarified Tuesday the public prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Belargent.
It is in any case a “call for torture“aiming”an opponent of the current regime in Algeria”, an appeal justifying the withdrawal of his residence permit and his expulsion, declared Thursday morning the prefect of Hérault, François-Xavier Lauch.
Also on Thursday, Sofia Benlemmane, a Franco-Algerian in her fifties, was taken into police custody, Lyon prosecutor Thierry Dran told AFP.
He is accused of having disseminated hate messages and threats against Internet users and more generally against all those likely to oppose the Algerian regime, as well as insulting statements towards France.
The influencer, followed by more than 300,000 people on TikTok and Facebook, was taken into police custody for “death threats and public incitement to hatred”, according to Nelson Bouard, interregional director of the national police.
“Fuck your mother, you and your France”, “I hope you get killed, I hope they kill you”, she said to another woman in September. This former football player had already made headlines in 2001 when she was given a seven-month suspended prison sentence and a three-year stadium ban for entering the pitch at the Stade de France during a friendly match. France-Algeria.
If she strongly criticized Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in a 2020 video, her speech has since radically changed and she now shows support for the Algiers government.
Two other influencers living in France have also been arrested in recent days.
Arrested in Brest on January 3, Youcef A., 25, alias “Zazou Youssef” on TikTok, will be tried on February 24 for advocating terrorism. Placed in pre-trial detention, he faces seven years in prison.
Aged 31, “Imad Tintin” was placed in police custody on Saturday in Grenoble for a video, since removed, in which he called for “burn alive, kill and rape on French soil”. Also in custody, he will be tried on March 5 for provocation of acts of terrorism.
On Monday, the Rhône prefecture indicated that it had made reports targeting three influencers based in Lyon, Sofia Benlemmane and two other TikTokers known under the names “Abdesslam Bazooka” and “Laksas06”.
The Lyon prosecutor’s office immediately announced the opening of two investigations, one for “provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor” and the other for “death threats and public incitement to hatred” targeting two of these three influencers, without specifying which ones.
In a video in Arabic published on December 10, Abdesslam Bazooka attacked opponents of the Algerian government, calling them “traitors” and threatening to “slaughter”.
Laksas06, for his part, took up an audio from another Franco-Algerian on December 11 in which he presented the members of the Algerian diaspora in France as “sleeping soldiers“ready to become”martyrs”.
The accounts of these three Lyon influencers have “been permanently suspended for violating our community rules”, TikTok said.
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