Moroccan Social Media Star Arrested for Alleged Kidnapping and Assault of Teens

Selma Mansouri is no longer free to move around. Since Saturday, June 15, she has been in pre-trial detention for acts of armed robbery, aggravated violence, kidnapping and sequestration, and dissemination of recordings of images relating to the commission of an intentional attack on the physical integrity of the person, reports Le Parisien, specifying that she was indicted by an investigating judge in Pontoise.

The facts that are being charged to the 35-year-old influencer took place last Thursday in Val-d’Oise. A message is sent via the Snapchat messaging service to two 19-year-old men living in Sarcelles, asking them to go to a house in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles to throw a Molotov cocktail on the car of its owner. The two friends do not know the identity of this mysterious client who had "a hassle with the person of the house," namely Selma Mansouri.

They arrive on the spot. The one who is in charge of sending the alcoholic mixture claims to have deliberately emptied the liquid to prevent the fire. Immediately afterwards, the influencer spotted them. With the help of several young people from the neighborhood, she catches up with them in a parking lot. This is followed by a wave of violence. The one who calls herself the "8th wonder of the world" put a knife to their throats. Beaten, sprayed with tear gas, the two young men from Sarcelles were brought back to Selma’s home. This violence continues in the basement. "There she took out a stick, a billiard cue and she hit us with it," testifies one of the Sarcellois. In a video posted on social networks, we see the mother hitting and humiliating the victims, whom she ordered to undress, before tying them to a bench and filming them. With the help of one of the influencer’s accomplices, the two Sarcellois manage to escape. They come out with four days of ITT.

Selma will be arrested and then placed in custody. During her custody, she confessed. "I filmed them to blackmail them so they would bring me the client. With them naked on the video, I was sure they would do what I asked them to do," she says. The influencer believes she knows the client in this case. It would be a man with whom she had a dispute at the end of 2023 and who had undermined her relationship with another influencer. "Yes, I lost it after being harassed for so long," she admits. Her lawyer Tom Michel takes her defense: "After several attacks at her home, my client finally gave in. She is aware of the seriousness of her