Overview
- A Paris court postponed the immediate-appearance hearing to February 27 and ordered his pretrial detention.
- The Paris prosecutor opened an investigation for outrage against a person holding public authority and assigned it to the capital’s territorial security unit.
- Police arrested him at the Les Lilas station overnight as he arrived to sign his judicial control, then placed him in custody.
- The TikTok showed him filming a street check at Châtelet–Les Halles, hurling insults in Arabic and urging an associate to strike an officer.
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez had the footage reported to Pharos, and the 29-year-old—previously convicted for advocating terrorism and under an OQTF that could not be executed due to Algeria’s refusal of travel documents—was already under residence assignment.