Relaxation to the proof of a detention. On Friday, April 11, the arrest of an Algerian consular agent in France aroused the wrath of the Algerian authorities. With two other men, he was accused of arrest, kidnapping, forced confinement or arbitrary detention followed by liberation before the seventh day, in relation to a terrorist company, according to the office of the National Prosecutor (PNAT).
• The elimination of a hostile influencer in Algiers
In the heart of the case, Amir Boukhors, a 41 -year -old Algerian influencer opposite the regime in its place in Algiers. Known as Amir DZ on social networks where he has been presented as a “research journalist”, he has been installed in France since 2016.
Algeria demanded the return of the influencer to the millions of subscribers to Tiktok to judge it and issued nine terms of international arrest against him, accusing him of fraud and terrorist crimes. In 2022, French justice rejected its extradition. He obtained political asylum in France in 2023.
Amir Boukhors says that it has been the subject of a kidnapping on the night of April 29, 2024, on French soil, convinced that this kidnapping is an attempt to intimidate the Algerian secret services.
• Triple accused
After being investigated in the office of the prosecutor of Créteil, the investigations in this kidnapping were carried out by the National Office of the Terrorism Prosecutor last February.
On Friday, April 11, three men, one of whom works in one of Algeria’s consulates in France, were accused and placed in pretrial detention, suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of Amir Boukhors in April 2024.
• Amir Boukhors cited in other judicial information
The name of Amir Boukhors had recently appeared in other judicial information, inaugurated by the Paris prosecutor’s office. In this case, an employee of the French Ministry of Economy was accused in December, suspected of having delivered information about opponents of the Algerian regime, including Amir Boukhors.
The information was claimed and transmitted to “a person of Algerian nationality who works at the Algeria Consulate in Créteil,” according to the Paris Prosecutor’s Office. According to a source close to this investigation, some people in which the information was transmitted were “victims of violence, death threats or kidnapping attempts.”
• Algiers denounces an “unacceptable judicial clique”
Following the accusation of his consular agent, Algeria strongly protested on Saturday, April 12.
The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced “the Vermoulu and eccentric argument” of the French Interior Ministry, punishing an “unacceptable judicial cable” that rests “in the mere fact that the mobile phone of the accused consular agent had been limited around the address of the house of the vigorous” Amir Boukhors.
“This new unacceptable and indescribable development will cause great damage to Algerian and French relations,” the ministry warned.
Algerian diplomacy claims to have “received” the French ambassador to Algeria, Stéphane Romatet, to “express (s) to protest live.” With the French ambassador, Algiers protested in “the form” and in “the substance” of the case, especially accusing the absence of “notification by the diplomatic channel.”
• Paris recalls the independence of justice
On the French side, we refrain from commenting too much about the matter. When asked, Bruno Retailleau spoke of “perhaps” an act of foreign interference “, and the police prefect of Paris Laurent Nuñez assured Europe 1/CNEWs that the investigations had been carried out” in an extremely rigorous way. “
“There is no political instruction received by police numbers, in this case, mine, under the authority of justice,” said Laurent Nuñez. “It is normal for justice to end and stop the alleged perpetrators of this kidnapping.”
• Recent warming of Franco-Algerias relations
The arrest of the consular agent and the protests of Algiers intervene a week just after the visit to the Algerian capital of the French Foreign Minister. At the end of the interviews with his counterpart Ahmed Attaf and with the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Jean-Noël Barot, had announced a “new phase” of Franco-Algerias relations, which had recently deteriorated.
A few days before, the French president Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune had already acted at the end of the month of crisis of a rare intensity, which had led the two countries to the edge of the diplomatic rupture. In question, the French reversal in the Western Sahara, or the arrest of the writer Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal.
Source: BFM TV
