Arrested on Sunday January 5, in Montpellier, the Algerian influencer Doualemn was placed in an administrative detention center (CRA), with a view to his expulsion to Algeria, reported the prefect of Hérault, of which CNews reported is echoed. A video of the influencer was the subject of a report on January 4 by Mayor Michaël Delafosse and Prefect François-Xavier Lauch. In this video, this “59-year-old Algerian national in a regular situation” had declared “kill him, let him suffer”referring to an Algerian anti-regime demonstrator. However, according to Montpellier prosecutor, Fabrice Belargent, “the translations carried out by two expert interpreters (…) established that the words ‘kill him’ had not been pronounced in the reported video”. And to add that she “did not contain a call to kill a person named ‘Cohen’”.
“The accused, on the other hand, called for a severe correction, to hit a man appearing to reside in Algeria”he continued. What the influencer recognized “indicating that he was under the influence of drug substitution treatment”. After the video was reported, an investigation was opened on January 4 to “public and direct provocation and not followed by effect to commit a crime or misdemeanor”. The individual was arrested “without difficulty” the day after. He will be tried in Montpellier on February 24.
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The Montpellier prosecutor also indicated that an investigation into “contestation of crimes against humanity and provocation of racial hatred” had been opened after the receipt, this Monday, of another report of a TikTok video by the mayor of Montpellier, this time targeting a Montpellier resident denying in particular the existence of gas chambers. Two other personalities active on social networks, “Zazou Youcef” and “Imadtintin”, were arrested during the day of Friday January 3 for comments considered extreme, respectively in Brest and Grenoble.
