The Hérault expulsion commission (Comex) issued a favorable opinion on March 12, 2025, regarding the authorities’ request to expel the influencer Doualemn, who had called for someone opposing the Algerian government to suffer. He was arrested this Thursday morning in Montpellier, reports Le Figaro.
According to the paper, a new deportation order has been issued against the influencer, and he will be placed in an Administrative Detention Center (CRA) pending his deportation.
Doualemn has several convictions. “The person concerned was convicted four times between 1990 and 2005, mainly for drug offenses and offenses against foreigners’ legislation. He was convicted in 2010 for not having a driving license,” stated the Montpellier prosecutor’s office.
He became well known for a TikTok video that “called for a severe beating to be given to a man appearing to reside in Algeria,” specified the public prosecutor of Montpellier. Followed by nearly 138,000 people on TikTok, Doualemn is a cleaner in a gym and an Algerian national legally present on French soil. He had been sentenced on March 6 to a five-month suspended prison sentence for “unfulfilled incitement to commit a crime or an offense.” His lawyers had appealed this sentence.
“There is an incomparable form of relentlessness. Our client is paying the price for a diplomatic ping-pong game even though he has no involvement in this issue,” he said.
“He had always responded to court summons. Coming to pick him up early in the morning at his home, in front of his family, illustrates the minister of the interior’s determination to make an example of our client,” laments his lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Mousset, who emphasizes that his client “was not authorized to call him at the police station.”
The father of two children, both of them of French nationality, entered France illegally in 1988 at the age of 23 and became involved in “common law delinquency,” stated the first expulsion order consulted by Le Figaro.
In 2010, he was granted a residence permit as the parent of French children. He had been “in good standing for around 15 years” on French soil, stated another of his lawyers, Emilie Brum.
