The Algerian influencer arrested following a video published on social networks calling for attacks on an opponent of the Algerian regime will be tried in February before the Montpellier criminal court. The investigation revealed that there was no call for murder but to “inflict a correction” on the political opponent.
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«Kill him, let him suffer », This is how the message from an influencer of Algerian origin, living in Montpellier, was interpreted. He had harangued his compatriots in a video published on the social network X against a young man who demonstrated on January 1 against the Algerian regime.
The prefect of Hérault and the mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, took legal action this past Saturday, January 4, explaining on the same social network: “lincitement to hatred is an offense, as such, this video is without doubt, I am making a report under article 40 of the Penal Code to the judicial authority of Montpellier.“
The prosecution indicated that it had “Immediately referred the Montpellier police station for an investigation into the charge of public and direct provocation and no follow-up to commit a crime.”
The man known as “Ami Boualem” on social networks was arrested on Sunday January 5. “He is a 59-year-old Algerian national legally resident on French soil”adds the Montepllier public prosecutor’s office in a press release sent to France 3 Occitanie.
“The latter, unfavorably known for various offenses committed until 2010, had a TikTok account followed by 168,000 people. He had published several dozen videos there which had collected around a million “likes”. He also had a YouTube channel “, specifies the prosecutor.
The translations carried out by two expert interpreters at the Montpellier Court of Appeal establish that the words “ kill him » were ultimately not uttered in the reported video, the Montpellier public prosecutor’s office said this Tuesday, January 7, in a press release. The video does not contain a call to kill a person named “Cohen.”
The man called on the other hand to give a severe correction, to hit a man appearing to reside in Algeria.
The person concerned admitted the facts by indicating that he was under the influence of drug substitution treatment.
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He was presented this Tuesday, January 7 to the prosecution as part of a deferred appearance procedure pending the conclusions of a psychiatric expertise which will be carried out very soon.
He will be judged on February 24, 2025 at 2 p.m.
