The diplomatic quarrel between Paris and Algiers fueled by the quarrel over Algerian influencers – a bilateral dispute in addition to Western Sahara and the arrest of the writer Boualem Sansal – reached a new level on Friday January 10. Traveling to Nantes, where the visa sub-directorate is located, Bruno Retailleau declared that France “has reached an extremely worrying threshold with Algeria”. The Minister of the Interior accused the latter of seeking “ to humiliate France » following the failure to deport one of its nationals.
Targeted by a ministerial expulsion order, after having his residence permit withdrawn, the 59-year-old man, Boualem Naman – nicknamed “Doualemn” or “Friend [mon oncle] Boualem” on social networks – had been arrested after a video containing a call for violence. Arriving in Algiers under police escort on Thursday January 9, his entry into the territory was refused, the Algerian authorities citing, according to Paris, a “inadmissibility”. Boualem Naman, a cleaning agent living in Montpellier, therefore returned to France where he was placed in administrative detention. His TikTok account, which had 138,600 subscribers before its closure, regularly broadcast threats against opponents of the Algerian regime, including one targeting the young poet Mohammed Tadjadit, which led to the legal proceedings initiated against him.
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