(AFP) French authorities Wednesday arrested another Algerian social media influencer as tensions soar between Paris and its North African former colony, the interior minister announced, in a statement that earned him a rare rebuke from Paris prosecutors.
Rafik M. had “called on Tiktok for the carrying out of violent acts on French territory,” said Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on social media, without saying where he had been arrested.
The influencer is one of half a dozen Algerians said to have been apprehended in France over the last month on accusations of calling for violence on French territory.
But in a rare move, the office of the Paris prosecutor stepped in with a statement rebuking Retailleau, who has been at the forefront of the crisis between Paris and Algiers, and accusing him of jumping the gun.
