Physical Address

304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124

The French string with Algeria expands further with the help of tits for tat

Paul Kirby

Digital editor of Europe

AFP on the 2022 picture shows French President with his Algerian counterpart after a press conference in AlgeriaAFP

Submit France’s photo Emmanuel Macron with President Algeria Abdelmadzid Tabbun since 2022

France reminded of his ambassador to Algeria and ordered 12 Algerian diplomats to leave Paris when the diplomatic line became worse.

Algeria sent 12 French officials earlier this week after one of his consular officers was arrested for the abduction of a government critic living in Paris. President Emanuel Macron’s office called this step “unreasonable and incomprehensible.”

However, the relationship was on the slide for months. Observers called the crisis unprecedented because Algeria provided independence from France in 1962.

There were hopes that the tension would facilitate after the French Foreign Minister held talks with President Algeria Abdelmady Tabun in Algeria earlier this month.

Both countries accused each other of calling “a sudden deterioration in our bilateral relations.”

French Foreign Minister Jean-Nael Baro said “Algerian authorities have chosen escalation.”

But Algeria’s Minister Sofia Chaib said the last “fabricated” was reduced to the Minister of the French interior Bruno Retal when the relationship was in the “warming phase”.

Last year, they broke when Macron announced that France recognized the Moroccan sovereignty of Western Sahara and supported a limited autonomy plan for the controversial territory.

Algeria supports the polysario-independence in Western Sahara and is regarded as the main ally.

Boualima Sansal’s French-Alzhar was arrested at Algeria Airport in November and imprisoned for five years last month.

Prosecutors said he had undermined national security for making the remarks into question about Algeria’s borders.

Gabriel Boyce/AFP Banner in French in Besier "Free Boualim Sansal" On the bridge Gabriel Boyce/AFP

Boualem Sansal was detained in November when he arrived at Algeria

However, Retailleau became increasingly involved in a row when Algeria refused to accept about 60 Algerians, which his ministry classified as “dangerous” and wanted to remove.

The deadly February attack on the knife in the eastern city of Malhaus did not take place, Retal said: “If Algeria respected the law and its obligations.”

Macron sought to clear the air with the President of Algeria at the end of last month in what they called “a long, open and friendly exchange”.

Following the fact that Baro leads to Visiting Algeria, saying that “France wants to redo the page to the current tension.”

But loud contacts could not put an end to the spiral of the main problems.

The last escalation occurred after the Algerian consular official with two other people in April 2024 was arrested last April 2024, which was expelled by Algerian influence called Amir D.

Amir d Amir d Amir d was released in the forest, Amir D was released by a loud critic of the Algerian government.

The shocked Algeria said the consulate’s arrest was directed to the “humiliation” of Algeria and replied, ordering the expulsion of 12 French officials, which, he said, were under the leadership of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Sofia Chaib, Secretary of State Algeria, said on Tuesday that Retalia was “full responsibility for this new situation”. He condemned the justification for the arrest of a consular official as a “grotesque”.

Retailleau said “it is unacceptable that France is a playground for Algerian intelligence.”

Paris responded late on Tuesday with the expulsion of 12 Algerian officials and reminded of his ambassador Stefan Ramate for consultations.

Boro, meanwhile, said the ambassador would return to Paris within 48 hours, but said his government would eventually restore the dialogue with Algeria.

“If we want the results for the French people, sooner or later we will have to have a sincere, even and complex dialogue,” he said.

Source link