Overview
- The Cour d'appel de Montpellier on 2 July confirmed a five-month prison sentence with suspension for Boualem Naman, known online as Doualemn, for provocation not followed by effect.
- The conviction stems from a January 2025 TikTok video in which prosecutors say he called for violence against an opponent of the Algerian government.
- French authorities have held an arrêté d'expulsion against Naman since March 2025 but Algeria earlier refused to readmit him and returned him to France.
- Naman has been under assignation à résidence since 18 May after a psychiatric hospitalization following a suicide attempt, and the Préfecture de l'Hérault extended that house arrest by 45 days from 1 July citing a serious threat to public order.
- The administrative expulsion procedure remains under review at the Tribunal administratif de Paris, a process that will determine whether the prefecture's public‑order measures and the diplomatic standoff with Algeria continue to shape his legal status.