Following the detention of the Algerian “ZazouYoucef”, the influencer “Imadtintin” was arrested on Friday January 3 after publishing a video on TiktTok in which he allegedly made comments akin to death threats.
Second arrest in the world of influence. After Zazouyoussef, placed in police custody on Friday January 3 in Brest for videos posted on TikTok which earned him accusations of advocating terrorism or death threats, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau announced the arrest of another “Algerian influencer”known as “Imadtintin.” “He too will have to answer for the vile comments made on TikTok before the courts. Don’t let anything pass”commented the former president of the LR group in the Senate on X.
This second influencer was “arrested in Echirolles [vendredi] around 7:30 p.m. and placed in police custody for death threats materialized in writing, image or other object committed because of race, ethnicity, nation or religion.specifies Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant. According to BFM, the 29-year-old man is only known to the courts for driving without a license. According to the tweet of an Algerian activist reposted by Bruno Retailleau, the influencer Imadtintin had for his part published a video, removed after the arrest of «Zazouyoussef»calling for “burn alive, kill and rape on French soil”.
This second arrest comes in the wake of the arrest of a first Algerian influencer, announced Friday January 3. Originally, Tuesday, December 31, a video was published on the social network TikTok, where the influencer based in Brittany, followed by hundreds of thousands of subscribers, spoke vehemently in Arabic, subtitled in French, calling for attacks in France and violence in Algeria. A video transmitted to the Pharos platform for reporting illegal content on the internet. “The Algerian influencer Zazouyoussef who called on his community to commit attacks in France will have to answer for his actions before the courts”declared Bruno Retailleau on X.
-According to TikTok, the account in question “was banned after posting several videos identified as violating our community guidelines, including our hate policies”. “Six copies of the videos concerned” were also detected and deleted, specifies the social network.
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