The de -escalation between Paris and Algiers only lasted time. A week after the visit to Algeria of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, Algiers announced, on Monday, April 14, having asked twelve agents of the French Embassy to leave Algerian territory within 48 hours. Jean-Noël Barrot warned in return that Paris is ready for immediate reprisals if Algiers expels his agents.
“I ask the Algerian authorities to give up these expulsion measures unrelated to the current legal proceedings”said Jean-Noël Barrot in a written statement transmitted to journalists. “If the decision to send back our agents was maintained, we will have no choice but to answer them immediately”he added.
This admonition of the Algerian regime comes after the placement in detention in France, on Saturday, of one of its consular agents, suspected of involvement in the kidnapping, at the end of April 2024 on the French soil of the Algerian influencer Amir Boukhors. “This new unacceptable and unspeakable development will cause great damage to Algerian-French relations”had warned the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement, promising not to “Leave this situation without consequences”.
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