A third Algerian influencer arrested in France for videos on TikTok

A third Algerian influencer was arrested this Sunday around 4 p.m., in Montpellier. Like two of his counterparts, arrested in Brest and near Grenoble, he is accused of having published videos on the social network TikTok calling for violent acts. “Thank you to the State services, the magistrates and the police who made it possible to locate and arrest this individual this evening,” Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on X. “Don’t let anything slip by. »

“Incitement to hatred is a crime”

A video of this Algerian influencer residing in Montpellier (Hérault) posted on the social network TikTok was the subject of a report to the courts on Saturday by the mayor of Montpellier and the prefect of Hérault. “Kill him, let him suffer,” said this man nicknamed Doualemn, referring to an Algerian anti-regime demonstrator.

The mayor of Montpellier Michaël Delafosse recalled on Saturday on On the same social network, the prefect of Hérault described these comments as “intolerable”.

Following these reports, the Montpellier police station was seized of “an investigation into the charge of public and direct provocation and not followed by effect to commit a crime”, specified the Montpellier public prosecutor’s office.

A third OQTF?

For its part, the Hérault prefecture has indicated that it is studying the possibility of withdrawing his residence permit in Doualemn and also taking out an OQTF against him.

This is the third arrest of an Algerian influencer on French soil in three days, after those of Youcef A., alias Zazou Youcef on TikTok in Brest on Friday morning, then that of Imad Tintin, one of his supporters, Friday evening in Echirolles, near Grenoble.