The French interior minister Bruno Retailleau suggested that he resigned if Algeria did not accept the deportations of “its dangerous citizens”.
Algeria has decided not to “give broken” to the deportation of about sixty algiers, considered a threat By public order and whose “priority expulsion” required France. For several months, Algiers systematically returns to its citizens who have committed themselves Criminal acts or Have been radicalized in the European Union. And the wrist with Paris has no signs of finish.
In a press release issued by the Algerian diplomatic service on Monday evening, Algeria reiterated “its categorical refusal of threats and attempts to intimidate, as well as to the requirements, the ultimatum and any type of threatening language”.
Algiers accuses Paris “questioning the treatment of expulsion cases” and apply a “selective approach to bilateral and international agreements that connect both countries”.
Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs guarantees that “Algeria is motivated only by the desire to fulfill its Consular protection service Towards its citizens, “France is invited, through its corporate director, to” follow the usual channel, in this case that it has been established between the French prefectures and the Algerian consoles “already” proceeds by chance. So no “unilateral” list.
Bruno Retailleau promises a gradual response
“I’m sorry that Algeria refuses to apply international law. As the interministerial committee chaired by the Prime Minister, A gradual response will apply“The French Minister Bruno Retailleau said in his account X.
Before the threat of the net of resign if he gave up before the Algeria, Rhyme hassanEurodiputada of the radical left party, France arose, reacted with a strong: “resignation”, since Hassan holds the French government for the deterioration of Franco-Argeli relations.
The RN asks for the visas and transfers of money to freeze
On the other side of the political spectrum, the extreme right accuses of helplessness to the French leader and asks the authorities that they are more difficult with their partner Maghreb.
“The French people would not have understood that the government did not react firmly to Numerous provocations of the Algerian regimewho violates his conventional obligations, “he said in X Marine Le PenLeader of the National Group Party (AN).
Jordan BardellaThe young head of the National Group Party (AN) even believes that Bruno Retilleau is “between the sword and the wall”, while he urges him to act.
What can we expect from that gradual answer?
Retailleau retailers mentioned in the French media could vary individual sanctions Up to everyone’s interrogation The agreements that connect the two countries.
First of all, the number 3 of the French government announced that he “suspended” the 2007 agreement that allows passport holders Algerian diplomats make short stays In France without visa.
According to an internal note from the Ministry of Interior filtered to the press, the “slowdown in compensation“For the victims of French nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara between 1960 and 1966.
Migratory agreements to the point of view
The migratory agreements of 1968who facilitated the installation and grouping of the Algerian family, are in the spotlight of a part of the government, but currently have a very scarce effect on the circulation and residence of the Algerians in France.
This text was gradually granted, in particular under the influence of the Algerian civil war and the implementation of the Schengen space. In addition, the 1968 agreements penalized Algerian students who, unlike other students, were not entitled to a Multiannual residence permit And they had to renew their visa every year.
Paris and Algiers have complicated relationships
On the other hand, the 1980 agreement, completed by a 2016 protocol, raised less debates, during the concession Social benefits In some categories of Algerian insured, in terms of pensions, family subsidies and opening of the treatments scheduled in France to Algerian patients.
ADVERTISINGThe relationships between Paris and Algiers are complicated Due to the colonial past of the country, but they have deteriorated especially since last July, when Emmanuel Macron Angry algeria recognizing an autonomy plan for the Western Sahara region, under Moroccan sovereignty. Although diplomatic ties have not broken, the French officials say that the algiers are adopting a policy aimed at erase the economic presence of France in the country, with a commercial drop of 30% from the summer, according to Reuters.
Another apple of discord is Detention of the Franco-Argelino writer Balem Sansal75, imprisoned in Algeria from mid -November. The intellectual and friend of the French interior minister is pursued for statements that are considered careful against “territorial integrity, stability and normal functioning of the institutions” of Algeria. According to the French authorities, around 10% of the 68 million inhabitants of France They have connections with Algeria.
