A man claiming to be the Islamic State threatened with death a user on the Tiktok social network, during a live video. He explained to live in Lyon (Rhône).
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He says he is called Ibrahim and finding himself in Lyon. In a video broadcast live on Tiktok, a young man claimed from the Islamic State, before threatening to “Cut the head” of a user with whom he debated.
“May Allah curse you“, “You are pigs”… The individual was most hostile to Iranian who was chatting with him.
Alternating comments and French and others in Arabic, a young man visibly radicalized has uttered several threats. Chawki Benzehra, an Algerian activist, recovered and broadcast an extract from this live, which we were able to consult, on his X account this Tuesday, August 26, adding his translation.
For our colleagues from Progresshe explains that the sequence is extracted from a video exchange between an Iraqi refugee in Europe, who abandoned the practice of Islam and other participants, being connected to debate.
Chawki Benzehra, who spotted this video, is an Algerian political activist refugee in Lyon. Last January, he explained to France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Tracking, on social networks, videos praising terrorism, so that the authorities act against the authors of this content.
He is the victim, for this, multiple waves of hatred and death threats. For Chawki Benzehra, the appearance of these appeal to violence, even murder, is the fruit “of a campaign of hatred and destabilization of France undoubtedly orchestrated by Algeria. The trigger is the recognition by France of the Moroccanity of Western Sahara a few months ago, these videos of hatred are in a way a response in the Under-Main government to this French position“.
Given the comments made in the mentioned video, a report was made to the Pharos platform by the @PoliceNationale.
In addition, the Lyon prosecution has opened an investigation.
⚠️ Do not relate this video.
Report the illegal content of the Internet 👇…
-Prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Rhône region (@PrefetRhone) August 27, 2025
In a post dating from Tuesday, he said, about this video, that the accused person “is far from being the only one in France because thousands of ‘dormant soldiers’ use social networks to spread the same speech. They could be easily recovered by Daesh or by hostile regimes, such as the Iranian diet or the Algerian regimeto commit hostile acts against their country of birth: France “.
The prefect of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, on the social network X still, specifies: “Given the comments made in the mentioned video, a report was made to the Pharos platform by the national police”.
She also invites not to share this video on social networks.
