An Algerian diplomat referred to by an international arrest warrant

An Algerian diplomat is targeted by an arrest warrant issued by a French judge as part of the investigation into the kidnapping. However, sequestration of an Algerian opponent in the Paris region in 2024.

An international arrest warrant was issued against a former senior official of the Algerian Embassy in France in the investigations in Paris on the kidnapping. For example, sequestration of an Algerian opponent in 2024, Amir Boukhors, said a judicial source at BFMTV, confirming AFP information.

The arrest warrant targeting an Algerian 37 -year -old Algerian was issued on July 25 by an investigating judge for arrest. Furthermore, kidnapping and sequestration in relation to a terrorist company and association of criminal terrorist criminals, according to the same source.

A judicial source confirmed to BFMTV the issue of this arrest warrant “against the former first secretary of the Algerian. Embassy in France”.

“I saw algerian diplomat referred international arrest death”

Influencer Amir Boukhors. known as Amir Dz, was removed on April 29, 2024 in the Paris region and then released on May 1.

It is “an important advance to avoid as much as possible the impunity of the Algerian agents involved in the facts which are of obvious gravity”. reacted Éric Plouvier, lawyer of Amir Boukhors, solicited by AFP.

Man is probably no longer in France and could assert possible immunity.

“It would be perilous to consider that the arrest of political opponents on French territory is part of the functions of a diplomat. once his allegedly diplomatic mission ended, the Algerian counter-espionage agent had only functional immunity” granted to state agents, added Me Plouvier.

Advanced investigations is “relief,” reacted to AFP Amir Boukhors. “I saw death” during the abduction which lasted “27 hours”, in a forest in Seine-et-Marne, he said.

Opponent

Located in France since 2016, Amir Boukhors, 42, has a million subscribers algerian diplomat referred international arrest on Tiktok. Opposing the regime of the Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune, he obtained the political asylum in France in 2023.

Algiers issued nine international arrest warrants against him in particular for fraud or terrorist offenses. French justice refused its extradition in 2022.

“In the event of a future arrest. it will of course be very interesting to hear the explanations of the person concerned and to try to know who he received the orders to carry out this special operation”, commented Me Plouvier, considering “difficult today to wait, in the current context, a cooperation of the Algerian authorities”.

This legal proceedings have rekindled tensions between France and Algeria, whose relations have continued to deteriorate since the summer of 2024.