Four new charges – Liberation
Four men were indicted on Friday in Paris and then placed in pre -trial detention, suspected of being linked to the kidnapping last year by Amir Boukhors, opposing the regime of Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune, said the National Anti -terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT).
The influencer Amir Boukhors, known as « Amir Dz », had been removed on April 29, 2024 in the Paris region and then released on May 1. Three menincluding an Algerian consular agent, have already been indicted in mid-April for arrest, kidnapping, sequestration, in relation to a terrorist company.
In accordance with the PNAT’s requisitions, the four men presented on Friday to an anti -terrorist judge were indicted for participation in an association of terrorist and arrest, kidnapping, kidnapping or arbitrary detention followed by liberation before the 7th day in relation to a terrorist enterprise.
According to sources close to the file, they are aged 32 to 57 and they are accused of having participated directly in removal, forcible confinement and detention of the victim. They would have been arrested in the Paris region and placed in police custody on Tuesday. According to these sources, they are presented by the accusation as performers, who have acted against remuneration and without any political mobile. Solicited by AFP, two defense lawyers, Camille Lucotte and Julien Fresnault, did not wish to speak.
In this case, according to a source close to the file, the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), French inner intelligence, incriminates in an April investigation report A former senior official of the Algerian embassy in Paris, not continued at this stage: « SS », presented as a « Algerian non-commissioned officer of the DGDSE », Intelligence service of this country, aged 36. He would have been present in Paris « Under the diplomatic coverage of first secretary » of the Algerian Embassy, but was not arrested.
Installed in France since 2016, Amir Boukhors, 41 years old and a million subscribers on Tiktok, is a « »irritant in the bilateral relationship with Algeria ” According to the report. It is the subject of nine international arrest mandates of Algiers who wants to judge him, in particular for fraud or terrorist offenses. In 2022, French justice refused its extradition and the country gave it political asylum in 2023.
