France, April 13 -- Algeria has summoned the French ambassador to protest the arrest of an Algerian consular official on suspicion of involvement in the April 2024 abduction of a TikTok influencer near Paris. It threatens to scupper a recent easing of tension between France and its former colony.

The Algerian consular official was one of three men reportedly charged Friday on suspicion of involvement in the abduction of Amir Boukhors - a popular TikTok influencer known as "Amir DZ".

Boukhors has been openly critical of the Algerian government and Algeriaviews him as a "saboteur linked to terrorist groups".

The three men were charged with abduction, arbitrary detention and illegal confinement, in connection with a terrorist enterprise, ...