According to Bruno Retailleau, “Algeria seeks to humiliate France” after sending again an influencer expelled by Paris | EUROtoday

“Algeria seeks to humiliate France”stated Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Friday, January 10, the day after the return to French soil of an Algerian influencer who had been deported to Algeria after the publication of a video calling for violence. “I think that we have reached an extremely worrying threshold with Algeria”added the minister, who was talking throughout a visit to Nantes.

This influencer – nicknamed “Doualemn” on TikTok – was arrested on Sunday in Montpellier then deported to Algeria on Thursday, earlier than lastly being despatched again to France within the night. Algiers has it “inadmissible”defined a police supply to Agence France-Presse, confirming info from the weekly Current values who bought it from the Ministry of the Interior.

This 59-year-old man was arrested after a video posted on TikTok containing a name for violence. Placed on Tuesday in an administrative detention heart (CRA) in Nîmes, he was taken to Paris on Thursday afternoon, from the place he left by aircraft to Algeria, in response to his lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Mousset. On Tuesday, the general public prosecutor of Montpellier, Fabrice Belargent, introduced that this man could be tried on February 24 for “provocation to commit a crime or misdemeanor”with out inserting him in pre-trial detention or underneath judicial supervision.

Hate messages

Two different Algerians had been not too long ago arrested, one in Echirolles, close to Grenoble, the opposite in Brest, for having posted content material on-line calling for violent acts, usually in opposition to opponents of the Algerian regime.

On Thursday, a fifty-year-old Franco-Algerian TikToker, Sofia Benlemmane, was taken into police custody in Lyon, the town’s public prosecutor, Thierry Dran, reported to Agence France-Presse. According to a police supply, he’s accused of getting disseminated hate messages and threats in opposition to Internet customers, and extra usually in opposition to all folks prone to oppose the Algerian regime, in addition to insulting statements in the direction of France.

On Monday, the Rhône prefecture indicated that it had made studies concentrating on three influencers based mostly in Lyon, together with Sofia Benlemmane, and two different TikTokers identified underneath the names “Abdesslam Bazooka” and “Laksas06”.