A Tunisian former parliamentarian who tried to stand in upcoming presidential elections before dropping out has been placed in pre-trial detention after allegedly crossing the border with Algeria illegally, a court told local media on Wednesday. Safi Said, 70, a former journalist and a vocal opponent of Tunisian President Kais Saied, was sentenced to four months in prison last June for forging ballot signatures in the 2014 presidential elections. On Tuesday, a court in Kasserine, in western Tunisia, “ordered the detention of political activist Safi Said and a companion of his for illegally cro…