Quai d’Orsay responds to Beauvau. Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau returned to an interview in Le Figaro this Friday, July 18 about the situation of Franco-Algerian, Boalem Sansal, imprisoned in Algeria for more than seven months and in the heart of a serious diplomatic gravation between Paris and Algiers.
Wishing the writer’s launch, Bruno Retailleau said significantly that “the diplomacy of good feelings has failed.” Boalem Sansal, sentenced by five -year prison appeal, did not benefit from a grace by the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
Statements that have not failed to react to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot in X. “There is no diplomacy of good feelings, or diplomacy of resentment. There is only diplomacy,” he wrote, without directly appointing his colleague.
The supporter of a “line of firmness”, since he had entrusted France Inter, Bruno Retailleau had put water in his wine on the day of the writer’s appeal, in an attempt to deactivate the situation.
“I do not want to spoil any possibility, even the slightest opportunity, make sure that Boalem Sansal) explained,” explained the Interior Minister to justify his appeasement.
But the latter finally decided to return to the offensive of the situation this Friday.
The Algerian regime “seeks to humiliate us”
“For long weeks, I managed to obey any possibility of liberation from Boalem Sansal. But it is clear that today you have to try something else, return to firmness, to re -defocate in defense of our interests,” said Bruno Retilleau, saying that the Algerian regime “seeks to humiliate us.”
In addition to the case of Boalem Sansal, several cases interrupt the relations between Algiers and France. Like Christofhe Gleizes’s situation, the independent journalist sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria, for “apologies for terrorism.”
Another issue of friction between countries, the question of visas: last May, the French authorities announced that Algerian citizens who have a diplomatic passport now will have to request a visa if they want to enter France.
Animity test between France and Algeria, the two parties have expelled the other country from public officials in recent weeks. France has also summoned the Algerian official in Paris to denounce an “unjustified and unjustifiable” decision of Algiers, promising to return Algerian diplomats in turn.
Tensions between France and Algeria lead the right to question the migration agreement, signed in 1968 by the two countries. Bruno Retailleau again reiterated his desire to “leave” these agreements this Friday.
Source: BFM TV
