French police arrest three Algerians in crackdown on social media influencers

INVESTIGATION - Several influencers calling for violence against opponents of the Algerian regime have been arrested in recent days in France. These digital diatribes by influencers, far from being isolated, are symptoms of a degenerating Franco-Algerian relationship.

French police arrest three Algerians over social media posts

A police dragnet in France has swept up three Algerian men described by authorities as social media influencers accused of posting videos inciting violence against a backdrop of soured relations between Paris and its former colony in North Africa. Imad Ould Brahim, a 31-year-old video blogger known as Imad Tintin, reportedly urged his followers to "burn alive, kill and rape" in France and was taken into custody on Monday ahead of a trial set for…

Presented on Monday, January 6, in immediate appearance at the Grenoble court for having published, then unpublished, on TikTok messages considered violent, on TikTok, the 31-year-old former Algerian soldier will be tried on the merits in March.

One, two, three... Almost four and five, if we believe the information we get from the Ministry of the Interior. The arrests of Algerian nationals who call for murderous acts on French territory are increasing. Although the threat is not at this stage characterized as terrorist (in the legal sense, since it is the local prosecutors who are in charge of these cases, and not the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office), it is repeated and spre…

Because of his videos critical of the Algerian government, the activist Chawki Benzehra says he is the target of numerous threats from influencers favorable to the regime of Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The latter are in the sights of the French authorities, because of hateful videos.

The prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region announced on Monday that she had reported to the authorities three new influencers whose remarks are liable to be punished by law.