“Doualemn” case: the OQTF of the Algerian influencer from Montpellier canceled, he is released from detention

L’influenceur est en rétention administrative depuis un mois. DR/ML

La justice administrative a suspendu les arrêtés du préfet de l’Hérault visant à obliger l’influenceur qui avait incité à la violence à quitter le territoire : sa rétention n’a plus lieu d’être. Le ministre de l'Intérieur a fait appel.

The administrative justice system has once again ruled in favor of the Algerian influencer “Doualemn” based in Montpellier and followed by 138,000 people on TikTok.

This Thursday, February 6, the Melun court thus annulled the two OQTF (obligation to leave French territory) orders issued by the prefect of Hérault, the day after the first decision of the administrative court which had suspended his expulsion to Algeria (while refusing to suspend the withdrawal of his residence permit following his calls for violence on social networks).

According to our information, in its order, the court ordered the prefect of Hérault “to grant a provisional residence permit” to the fifty-year-old.

Placed in an administrative detention center since his arrest at the beginning of January, “Doualemn” was therefore released this Thursday. The Ministry of the Interior has appealed this decision.

“He will return peacefully to his family”

“He will return peacefully to his family” rejoices his lawyer Me Mousset.

“The administrative court has just annulled the decisions requiring him to leave the territory, the basis for Doualem's detention.

These decisions were taken on January 29, just a few hours after the decision was suspended initial expulsion, had the sole objective of keeping him locked up” recall his two other lawyers, Marie David-Bellouard and Julie Gonidec.

“The ministry gambled its all and lost”

“This succession of measures is a sign of fierce and blind relentlessness, which has now been sanctioned. The ministry gambled its all and lost. We have been denouncing an illegal detention since January 29th and welcome a logical decision that puts an end to it.”

On January 9th, “Doualemn” had been expelled to Algeria, but at the airport, he had been immediately sent back to France, worsening the diplomatic crisis between the two countries. He is to be tried by the Montpellier judicial court on January 24th for “public provocation to commit a crime or an offense.”