“I saw death”: the opponent Amir Dz tells his kidnapping, an ex-Algerian diplomat now under an international arrest warrant

An international arrest warrant was issued against a former head of the Algerian Embassy in France in the investigation into the kidnapping of an Algerian opponent in 2024. Therefore, learned on Saturday August 9, 2025 theAFP source close to the file.

A judicial source confirmed to theAFP the issue of this arrest warrant “Against the former first secretary of the. Consequently, Algerian Embassy in France”.

An arrest warrant issued last July – "i saw death": opponent amir

The arrest warrant, targeting S. S.. an Algerian 37, was issued on July 25, 2025 by an investigating judge for “Arrest, kidnapping and “i saw death”: opponent amir sequestration in relation to a terrorist company and association of criminal terrorist criminals”according to the source close to the file.

On July 23. 2025, the national anti -terrorist prosecution (PNAT), which resumed the investigation in February, had requested the issuance of an arrest warrant against S. S., believing that there were “serious presumptions” that he committed the alleged facts, she said.

An Algerian DGDSE non-commissioned officer

Influencer Amir Boukhors. known as Amir Dz, was removed on April 29, 2024 in the Paris region and then released on May 1. In an inquiry report dated April. the Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI) incriminates this former official of the Algerian Embassy in Paris, had reported another source close to the file.

Presented as a “Algerian non-commissioned officer of the DGDSE”an intelligence service of this country, S. S. would have been present in Paris “Under the diplomatic coverage of first secretary” “i saw death”: opponent amir of the Algerian Embassy. 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 Eric Plouvier. lawyer for Amir Boukhors, solicited by theAFP.

At least seven people indicted

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 falls within the scope of the functions of a diplomat. once his mission is allegedly + diplomatic + finished, the Algerian counter-espionage agent had only functional immunity” Given to state agents, added Me Plouvier.

At least seven people, including an Algerian consular agent, have been indicted. They are suspected of having been mainly performers who acted against remuneration. without political mobile, according to other sources close to the file.

“A relief”

Advanced investigations is “A relief”reacted to theAFP “i saw death”: opponent amir Amir Boukhors. “I saw death” During his abduction which lasted “27 hours”in a forest in Seine-et-Marne, he said. Located in France since 2016, Amir Boukhors, 42, has a million subscribers 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 mandates 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 (S. S.). to try to know who he received the orders to carry out this special operation”commented Me Plouvier, believing “Difficult today to wait, in the current context, 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.