This affair “looks like a state affair”, according to the lawyer, Eric Plouvier.
Published the 14/04/2025 18:54 Reading time: 1min
“We expected that the Algerian authorities react, if only because one of their agents was arrested, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention”, Ensures, Monday, April 14, on Franceinfo Eric Plouvier, lawyer for the Algerian influencer “Amir Dz”, opposing the regime kidnapped in April 2024 in France. Three men were indicted in this file last Friday, including an agent of an Algerian consulate.
“But there, continues the lawyer, we change proportion in the reaction with the measures which have been announced and executed by the Algerian government“. The latter has an effect required, Monday, from 12 French officials in post in Algeria to leave the territory, specifying that this decision was a response to the arrest of three Algerian nationals in France.
For Eric Plouvier, we changed our sphere: “We went from the point of view of” Amir Dz ” – a judicial perimeter delimited following his complaint of May 1 – to a political context as has been said, then to a diplomatic perimeter with different issues”. A moving situation therefore that worries the influencer: “Amir’s fear is that this case is less well treated than other cases, because of this political or diplomatic pressure”. A matter “which looks like a state affair, According to the lawyerinsofar as the Algerian state is accused of having ordered a serious operation on French soil “.
