French intelligence incriminates an ex-high Algerian diplomat in France-Liberation

A questioning that should not improve The climate between France and Algeria. French internal intelligence incriminates in an investigation report a former senior official of the Algerian embassy in Paris in the kidnapping in 2024 near the capital of Amir Boukhors, opposing the Abdelmadjid Tebboune regime, known as « Amir Dz », AFP learned from a source close to the file on Tuesday.

It is the fourth protagonist implicated in this investigation, carried out by a Parisian anti -terrorist judge. « SS », as the Directorate General of Internal Security presents, is a « Algerian non-commissioned officer of the DGDSE », An 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. It is possibly no longer in France and could assert possible diplomatic immunity.

Three other people, including a consular agent, have been indicted in mid-April 2025 for arrest, kidnapping, forcible sequestration, In relation to a terrorist company. In its April 11 report, the DGSI affirms that SS would have been called by one of the respondents « While the sequestration began »or would have participated in a « Debriefing » At four, « Two hours after removal ».

SS also withdrawn that night from the Bank 2,000 euros, possibly to pay the jail trees of Amir Boukhors. His phone also limited several times near the influencer’s home and a bar, where he had his habits, more than a month before the removal.

Installed in France since 2016, Amir Dz, 41 and a million subscribers on Tiktok, 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 granted it political asylum in 2023.

Solicited by AFP, his lawyer Eric Plouvier denounced « A violent attack on the physical integrity of a political refugee in France and a serious attack on French sovereignty » and ask for « Delivering arrest mandates ».