{"id":4549,"date":"2023-11-24T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.net\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:54:10","slug":"french-police-arrest-algerian-international-youcef-atal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"French Police Arrest Algerian International Youcef Atal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a recent development reported by French media outlets, <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algerian<\/a> international <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.net\/category\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">footballer <\/a>Youcef Atal<\/strong> has been arrested. The <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=44\">news<\/a>, initially brought to light by the French website &#8220;Onze Mondial&#8221; citing &#8220;Nice Matin,&#8221; a newspaper closely associated with the Nice <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">football<\/a> club, states that Atal has been detained by the Nice police since Thursday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further details revealed by &#8220;Nice Matin&#8221; indicate that Atal is currently held at the &#8220;Ouvare&#8221; police station in Nice, located in the south of France, Youcef Atal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This arrest is part of a wider controversy surrounding Atal, which began following his support for the <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=48\">Palestinian<\/a> people facing harsh aggression, This stance has led to significant backlash against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably, the Public Prosecutor of Nice had announced on October 16 the initiation of a preliminary investigation into Atal&#8217;s case, on charges of &#8220;incitement to racial hatred on religious grounds.&#8221; Moreover, on October 31, the Disciplinary Committee of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligue1.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French League<\/a><\/strong> issued a decision to suspend the player for seven matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent development reported by French media outlets, Algerian international footballer Youcef Atal has been arrested. The news, initially brought to light by the French website &#8220;Onze Mondial&#8221; citing &#8220;Nice Matin,&#8221; a newspaper closely associated with the Nice football club, states that Atal has been detained by the Nice police since Thursday evening. Further &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71568,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/71568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}