Diplomatic relations in the form of a roller coaster. After a beginning of the appeasement, the expulsion of Algiers of 12 French officials on Sunday, April 13 caused a new crisis between France and Algeria.
The French government retaliates when announcing the dismissal of 12 Algerian consular agents. For the head of the French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barot, who had gone to Algiers in early April to sew the ties, Algiers “chose the climb.”
These tensions, fed by the colonial history that links the two countries, are not new. Since Emmanuel Macron’s choice in 2017, Franco-Algerias relations have alternately stable of appeasement and, above all, tension.
The words of the French president in a “commemorative annuity” in 2021 or even fled them to France from the Algerian opponent Amira Bouaui in 2023 have already awakened the anger of the Algiers. More recently, it is the question of Western Sahara and the arrest of the Franco-Algerio Boalem Sansal writer who gave fire to the dust.
OQTF and imprisonment of Balem Sansal
While the question of the west of Sahara contaminates the relations between Paris and Algiers, the refusal of the Algerian authorities to welcome certain nationals expelled from France will cause anger to the French government, particularly that of the Minister of Interior Bruno Bruno Retailleau. In the background, the imprisonment of Boalem Sansal continues to supply tensions.
A brief warming of relationships
In full tensions of climbing between Algeria and the French government, Emmanuel Macron manages to reduce the temperature chatting with his counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune.
For the Algerian President, the Head of State is his “unique reference point” in tumultuous relations between the two Mediterranean banks. But just a few days later, the arrest of an Algerian agent in France will cause this new attempt to fail.
Algeria now also designates an official in this climb: Bruno Retilleau, whose attitude is “distressing” qualified by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria. Algiers also accuses the Interior Minister of “Barbouzeries for purely personal purposes.” “I am the big goal,” said Bruno Retilleau, convinced that it is necessary to maintain “a balance of power.”
Source: BFM TV
