Wanted, he had been hiding for several days, protected by his friends in the basement of a building on the northern outskirts of Turin, in the Barriera di Milano neighborhood. This time, he didn't film or post his exploits on social media.
Said Ali, 24, the TikTok user known as Don Ali, was arrested Friday evening by officers from the Police Headquarters' Flying Squad, coordinated by the Piedmontese prosecutor's office. The "King of the Maranzas," an Italian of Moroccan origin, is charged with stalking and aggravated defamation.
He has built a following of over two hundred thousand online, posting inflammatory and violent content. This includes the video that led to his arrest. At the end of October, he and two members of his team waited for a teacher outside the school where the man had gone to pick up his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. He threatened him and slapped him on the back of the head in front of the little girl, who clung to her father's legs in fear . Don Alì insulted him and accused him of mistreating a student. "Teacher, the next time you bully a child and mistreat him, this video will become public," Don Alì said, claiming that the child the teacher was harassing was his nephew. However, investigations reveal that no children of Moroccan origin are enrolled at the school where the teacher teaches.
The images were published in a reel on the TikTok user's Instagram page, with captions calling the teacher a "pedophile" and the "prey" of the attack . In early November, Don Alì then released excerpts from an interview on the TV show 'Le Iene', reiterating the need to punish those who abuse minors and issuing new threats: "The next time you abuse children, it will end much worse."
The teacher filed a complaint, attaching a medical certificate for anxiety caused by the intimidation. Police investigators, led by principal Davide Corazzini, determined that the accusations against the teacher were unfounded . The investigation, coordinated by Deputy Prosecutor Patrizia Caputo and Prosecutor Roberto Furlan, also . A disguised individual armed with a nail-studded club had struck the windshield of the Mediaset car, shattering it. Don Alì's alleged accomplices, a 24-year-old and a 27-year-old who had accompanied him to the school, were ordered to sign in by order of the investigating judge.
