Arrested on Friday in Tunis for illegal entry into Tunisian territory, the Franco-Algerian activist, sentenced to Algeria, left Tunis for Lyon on Monday. An exfiltration that caused the anger of Algiers.
Back on the case! Amira Bouraoui, a Franco-Algerian activist and opponent of the former Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika was arrested, Friday, February 3, 2023 in Tunis and placed in police custody at the General Borders and Foreigners.
She is accused of having illegally crossed the Tunisian border, and was heard on Monday, February 6 by the judge in charge of the case at the Cantonal Tunis court. Following this hearing, the judge decides to relax it and postpone the examination of the file to February 23.
After her hearing, Amira Bouraoui was again arrested by the police officers and was to be expelled to Algeria. She is released a few hours earlier and then decides to take a flight for France.
According to “Le Monde” Amira Bouraoui was even placed in a safe place under the protection of the French authorities after a diplomatic intervention knowing that it is prosecuted in Algeria for two cases.
Amira Bouraoui was sentenced in 2021 to two years in prison in 2021. She was accused of an official to an official in the exercise of his functions and damage to the person of the President of the Republic as well as the dissemination of publications likely to undermine public order and affected by the precepts of Islam and the Prophet.
On the part of it, the Algerian president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, orders the recall of the ambassador of his country to France, Saïd Moussa, for consultations following the participation of French diplomats, consuls and security agents in the exfiltration of Amira Bouraoui.
According to the French daily newspaper “Le Monde”, Amira Bouraoui left Tunisian territory for Lyon on Monday evening, after obtaining authorization to join France by the President of the Republic, Kais Saied.
“The world adds that after the arrest of the activist, Paris intervened with the Presidency of the Tunisian Republic to prevent its expulsion to Algeria.
“Ms. Bouraoui left Tunis on Monday, February 6 in the evening, aboard a flight from the Transavia company towards Lyon, after hours of tight negotiations between the French and Tunisian authorities,” said the French daily.
“Binational, it has, thanks to its French nationality, the diplomatic protection of Paris which, after having welcomed it for a few hours at the French Embassy in Tunis, obtained from the Tunisian president, Kaïs Saïed, the authorization to let it join France instead of extradition to Algiers to which it seemed initially dedicated”.
