France Expels Algerian Officials, Recalls Ambassador After Diplomatic Clash Over Arrests

If the Algerian press shoots redballs at the French Minister of the Interior, who was deemed responsible for the diplomatic escalation between Paris and Algiers, the young Algerians seem more indifferent to this rupture which established between the two countries.

On Tuesday 15 April, the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, denounced on CNews the fact that "France cannot be a playground for Algerian services", considering this situation unacceptable in a context of increasing tensions between Paris and Algiers. In response to similar measures taken by Algeria, Emmanuel Macron ordered the expulsion of "12 agents operating within the Algerian consular and diplomatic network in France" and recalled t…

France and Algeria are back in the ice age – the main reason for this is France's position on Western Sahara occupied by Morocco.

As diplomatic tensions between Algiers and Paris intensified, the closure of the international lycee Alexandre-Dumas was now invoked. A symbolic manoeuvre in a context of larva crisis and struggles of influence.

The indictment of an Algerian consular agent in France revived the diplomatic crisis between Algiers and Paris, which recalled its ambassador on Tuesday 15 April. The risk is great of an even deeper rupture between two countries which underestimate their interest in renewing.

The Minister of the Interior had declined in March some 15 measures going crescendo, after Algiers had rejected a list of some 60 Algerians to be expelled from France.