Algeria defended his “sovereign” decision tonight on Monday, April 14 to expel 12 French agents, bringing French minister Bruno Retilleau to the French minister “all responsibility” of this renewed tensions between Algiers and Paris.
“This minister, who stands out in barbocoviceros for purely personal purposes, is in a flagrant lack of political discernment,” continues Algerian diplomacy, with respect to the tenant of the Beauvau place.
Algiegos points out “the negative attitude” by Bruno Retailleau
In a statement, the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that these 12 people had been declared “Person Non Grata “ In response to the arrest in France of an Algerian consular agent, an “unworthy act” that is “the consequence of the negative, distressing and constant attitude of the French Minister of the Interior against Algeria,” he added.
Three people, including an Algerian consular agent, suspected of being involved in The elimination of influencer Amir Boukhors In April 2024 they were accusation This Friday, April 11 for arrest, kidnapping, forcanciety or arbitrary detention followed by liberation before the seventh day, in relation to a terrorist company, according to the office of the French National Prosecutor (PNAT).
These new tensions between Paris and Algiers are working a week after the visit to the Algerian capital of the French Foreign Minister. At the end of the meetings with his counterpart Ahmed Attaf and with the Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Jean-Noël Barrot, had announced a “New phase” of Franco-Algerias relationsthat had deteriorated in recent months.
French president Emmanuel Macron and Abdelmadjid Tebboune had already acted at the end of March at the end of a strong crisis, which had led the two countries to the edge of the diplomatic rupture. In particular, the French change in west of Saharaor the Detention of the writer Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal.
Source: BFM TV
