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Placed Tuesday in an administrative detention center in Nîmes, the influencer was put on a plane Thursday afternoon, but was returned to France the same evening, Algeria having “banned him from territory”, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
JUSTICE – Right of reply for the Doualemn councils. The day after the aborted expulsion of the 59-year-old Algerian influencer, whose video shared on TikTok had provoked his arrest for “call for torture” aiming “ an opponent of the current regime in Algeria »his lawyers counter-attacked this Friday, January 10.
Returned to an administrative detention center upon his return to France on Thursday evening, Doualemn therefore let his lawyers ensure his defense during a press conference organized less than 24 hours after his attempted expulsion to Algiers, which this Friday provoked the anger of Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau at the Algerian decision to send him back to France.
Me Émilie Brum first took the floor to detail the profile of her client, at a time when several Algerian content creators – or those with dual nationality – were arrested in France for calls for violence or for having made speeches online haters. Profiles far removed from that of their client, “ordinary citizen” and father of two children of French nationality »one of which is “ disabled “.
“He is someone to whom France gave this chance and he seized this chance (…) He works (…) as a maintenance agent”also recalled the lawyer of the Algerian influencer. And despite his legal past, “ he had been in good standing on French territory for around fifteen years since he held a residence permit “. Besides, “he has not committed any offense on French territory” during this period.
“The publication (…) diverted from its initial meaning”
Regarding the facts with which he is now accused, his counsel nevertheless recognizes “a certain number of comments that he regrets “, but which should not, however, deprive this man of a “ fair trial » and “ explain ».
The two lawyers underline for this the fact that the investigation demonstrated the absence of “ any call for murder, any intention to kill or any anti-Semitic behavior », « recalling that all this was excluded from the procedure “. Thanks in particular to official translations of his remarks, carried out “ under the control of the public prosecutor ».
Reason why Me Jean-Baptiste Mousset affirms that “ the incriminated publication, the initial publication distributed by our client was diverted from its initial meaning, through certain people who interfered in more or less official translations ».
Its retention on French territory therefore did not represent “ no risk “. Especially since “ no placement under judicial supervision » and that “ no request to a judge of freedoms with a view to his provisional incarceration » had not been requested by the Montpellier public prosecutor after his arrest.
“Against all expectations, the Minister of the Interior issued an expulsion order”, added Me Mousset, for whom his client “has borne the brunt of a particularly repressive administrative action”. Thus, even if the attempt to expel their client failed, the two lawyers indicate that they want “file in the form of a discharged summary judgment the challenge to this decision” administrative. « He has no place in a detention center. His whole family is French, he has a job, he wants to explain himself to the judges on February 24… “, finally replied Me Brum. Their fear now? Seeing their client undergo another “ attempted removal.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.fr
