Algeria: autonomy movement member cited in Epstein files

A member of the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK), Daniel Siad, is mentioned over 2000 times in the newly released Epstein files, according to TSA Algérie via AFP on February 12th.

Siad, who was born in Algeria but lives in Sweden, worked as a modelling scout and is accused of providing girls and young women for Jeffrey Epstein. Their email exchanges are explicit about their activities, with Siad mentioning teenage girls he had found for Epstein in various European countries. Documents also show regular payments from Epstein to Siad.

The released emails further reveal ties between Siad and Jean-Luc Brunel, an ex-French modelling agency executive, who was accused of human trafficking and was found dead in a Paris jail in 2022. A message sent to a New York district prosecutor from Stan Pottinger, a lawyer for a number of Epstein’s victims, notes that Brunel had described Siad as a recruiter of “girls and/or women” for Epstein.

In addition, Siad stands accused of the rape and trafficking of the Swedish woman, Ebba Karlsson, who came forward after seeing his picture in the media.

Siad, who describes himself as a “Berber Jew“, has close ties to the MAK movement and has acted as its official representative in 3 Arab countries: Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.

These revelations raise new questions about the ties of the MAK separatist group, classified as a terrorist movement in Algeria. The MAK’s leader Ferhat Mehenni, self-declared President of the Republic of Kabylia, was sentenced to 20 years jail in absentia in 2024, after being accused of “plotting with the Zionist entity” and of spreading ideas that “target the security of the state”.

He now lives in exile in France and continues to be a staunch supporter of the Hebrew state, recently giving an interview to Tandem TV in which he declared that an independent Kabylia would recognize the state of Israel.

TSA Algérie via AFP, France 24 via AFP, Tandem TV (YouTube), Maghrebi.org