An obviously announced return on social networks. On May 1, Poupette Kenza reappeared on social networks, after several months of silence. In its Instagram publication, I like almost 480,000 accounts, promise “say everything” to its “poupettes”, as its subscribers call, in a book that appears this Thursday, May 22, entitled From Poupette to Kenza.
Because the life of the influencer has changed in recent months, from the facade of the networks to the crime. Arrested on July 4 in Rouen, she was accused in a extortion case and placed in pre -jicio detention.
He is accused of having used a henchman to threaten a couple from which he was close and try to recover a large sum of money. According to the history of the influencer, this couple of which their former agent was part, stole money.
Pregnant of her third child, spent four months after bars, before being released in October and placed under judicial supervision. For what was one of Snapchat’s main figures in France, the fall was up to his ascent.
His life told in networks like “a soap opera”
Kenza Benchrif, his real name, was not pre -designed to know such exposure in the media: he passed part of his childhood, marked by his father’s absence, in an HLM next to Rouen. If it begins to be followed on social networks thanks to the exhibition that benefits from its cousins, Anissa and Soukaina Twosis, it really explodes between 2020 and 2021, after an incredible story, since it only has the secret.
“One day, her car is stolen, she cries and it is the community that helps her find her car,” says Audrey Chippaux, who has the Instagram account actually, who alerts the influential scams. “Then, from the beginning, she had a strong link” with her “dolls”, underlines the author of the book Behind the filter, research on the influence system.
And it is probably an important ingredient in the recipe for the success of Poupette Kenza. Over the years, his subscribers have seen him marry, have two children and move to Dubai. She documents all these adventures in Snapchat, where she publishes dozens of stories per day.
UFO in the midst of influence, creates its own record, which is sometimes closer to reality television: Albina, also subscribed, speaks of its stories as its “night soap.”
The “spills” highlight their spontaneous side: “Poupette broke everything and anything. It was not calculated, but very natural and authentic,” says Albina, 24. “Sometimes too much,” for your lawyer I Jérémy Kalfon. In this, he detonates in the universe of influencers, where the contents are often very controlled, in the substance as in the form.
And also because at a time when content creators multiply “projects”, brand releases of all kinds, blockbusters, stands out with the content centered on the falsely simple life of a housewife that cooks and takes care of their children. Falsely simple because spontaneity has limits.
A very strong link with its “dolls”
The young woman “developed a very strong parasocial bond with her subscribers from the beginning and kept her by involving her community,” he also analyzes. Claire emphasizes, for example, that he responded very quickly to the messages of his subscribers: “We did not have the impression that it was an influencer, but that it was a friend.”
This phenomenon is amplified by the “calls to emotion” that Poupette Kenza does, according to Audrey Chippaux: “We saw her cry in history, share her feelings. He said very regularly to her community, ‘my dolls I love you thanks for everything’, all this creates the link.”
Sometimes a toxic bond, judges this complainant, for whom Poupette Kenza has “control over his subscribers.” Some paid the price, such as Sarah Tanzili. Then, deputy, in 2023 she announced that she seized Rouen prosecutor for what she considers “negligence”, “endangering children” and the “dissemination of children’s pornographic images” by Kenza Benchrif. She denounces several images published by the young woman on her social networks that involve her children.
The next day, Sarah Tanzili explains that he had received a wave of insults and threats of the “landfills”, that the influencer encourages Snapchat, republicing the attacks that he considers “deserved” by the deputy.
Some of his “landfills” are ready to defend against him against everything. Like Albina, she has “many problems for her” because “she received a lot of implacability, harassment”: “Poupette only broke her daily life and received a wave of unjustified hatred”, deplores the young woman who works in commerce.
Children exposed online, controversy and judicial matters
Over the years, controversies have accumulated for the young woman. She is the subject of reports to the authorities about her children whom she exposes a lot in her social networks, showing them when she woke up, cry, eat, after punishment, sleep …
We see her once walking on her daughter’s hand, too concentrated on her phone to realize. She reveals intimate family moments, like when she asks her children if they are sad if she leaves her father.
This overexposure played against her in 2023, when she lost her son’s custody for two weeks. The nine -month -old baby is hospitalized by an inexplicable skull fracture and social services in particular denounce the frantic activity of Poupette Kenza on social networks. She ends up recovering her son and made a whole video for almost three million times.
At the judicial level, it is also directed by a procedure for anti -Semitic comments, after having declared in May 2024: “I am propaleinian, not work for any Zionist or Jewish person.”
It is also the influence of having publicly received the most important fine in France. In 2023, he had to pay a transactional fine of 50,000 euros for having carried out commercial collaborations without indicating its advertising nature and having promoted prohibited dental laundry bands in France. “An association” as such, says Audrey Chippaux.
“She took advantage of us”
And some of their deficiencies have had very specific consequences in the lives of several people. As Inès*, who worked in the beauty hall of Poupette Kenza in Rouen. In September, Sena’s maritime prefecture ordered the administrative closure of the establishment for hidden work.
Inès is one of the employees of the living room that have not been declared. It was in full application for naturalization and the procedure was delayed since it could not present the required wages.
“I am very disappointed and angry, I still do not have my nationality and after my contract I had health concerns, and since I had no evidence that I had worked, I had no right to safety or unemployment,” he denounces. When you think about your experience in O’Suntime, Inès is very bitter.
“She is extremely alone”
In a few years, Poupette Kenza, now 24 years old, will have exploded in notoriety while building his family and businesses. Everything went too fast. For Audrey Chippaux, “it was always more with Poupette.” “He lacked maturity” and “Maybe supervision,” said the complainant.
Around her in her stories: only her husband and children. Friendships arrive and, above all, they leave. “He has many problems, given his status, to weave friendships that are not interested. It is very complicated for her. In addition, he has evolved his whole life in an environment that did not have much money,” confirms his lawyer, I Jérémy Kalfon.
On a professional level, it is difficult to know how surrounded it could be. The person who was his agent is also the one who tried to extort the money through a henchman, which earned him that he was accused today. As “Poupette”, Claire also thinks that Kenza Benchrif “was taken by the game of the networks” and “did not see its limits.” “That’s why his fall has arrived,” he said.
A minimization of your role in extortion?
In a few days, Dubai will have passed from his apartment in prison, in France. Since then, he has recognized his participation in this case of extortion against his former agent, who accuses having stolen money. “Faced with his inability to recover his claim by legal and friendly means, he made the decision, after all catastrophic, he acknowledges, to use a person whose objective was to intimidate the debtors,” explains his lawyer, Me Kalfon.
But she says that “it was very widely marginalized from the method of the person who had commissioned that he took very great freedoms, which led to the facts we know.” Namely, “various monitoring (physics, implantation of mini cameras near your home and GPS label placed in your vehicle)” and physical threats, according to the public prosecutor of Rouen.
“The henchman acted for his own motivated initiative, I think, because he would be paid only if the mission was successful,” summarizes the influencer in an interview with the Parisian.
The case is still under investigation and Kenza Poupette, as well as her husband, remain accused and under judicial supervision.
“My lawyer explained to me that in the law, extortion is to subtract money from threat or intimidation. So, ultimately, it is extortion. But I have problems saying that I tried to extort my own money,” he adds to our colleagues.
Contacted by BFMTV.com, the threatened couple’s lawyer denounces the “staging” of Poupette Kenza, who “orchestra his return from the media for commercial purposes and attempts, in vain to soften his image.” “Therefore, minimizing the seriousness of the events trivialized the crime, while showing a deep contempt for the victims,” Mehdi Soum added.
“It is also my right to express myself, defends Poupette. In addition to the case, the objective was also to tell the trip of my life, my autobiography. I slipped because I felt an overflow of uncontrollable emotions. I often think about it.”
“Exercise your profession differently”
With his book, which appears this Thursday, May 22, the influencer is trying to recover control over the history of his life, since until now he did it on social networks. Recognizing a form of addiction and dependence on the reactions caused by their stories, Poupette Kenza trusts his book, his “needs to be loved by all.”
Today, her lawyer says that she has “the desire to exercise her profession differently” and that “he understood the responsibility that he was his de facto.”
The influencer affirms it with the Parisian: “You will not see me on social networks before at least this fall” and to add: “If I return to the networks, I would be completely separated, in a different mental state.”
The lawyer of the victim of extortion attempt is not deceived and highlights the significant “risk” of repetition of a villain crime. ” The attitude of his clients who show “dignity”, “silence” and “patience” is opposed to Poupette Kenza.
*The names have been modified
Source: BFM TV
