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FRANCE, JUL 22 – France restricts travel for Algerian officials after Algeria rejects return of 120 deportees, complicating immigration enforcement, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said.
- Friday saw the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs inform Retailleau that recognition of the Algerian passport is essential, highlighting diplomatic pressures amid tensions over deportations.
- On Wednesday, Sophie Primas said that 120 individuals subject to an OQTF have not been accepted back by the Algerian authorities, adding this was during a Wednesday briefing.
- Between March and 22 July, 53 deported Algerians were sent back to France, Le Figaro reported.
- Retailleau criticised the Algerian authorities for issuing passports to `illegal immigrants` and called for a diplomatic tone shift, and he pledged to act accordingly.
- Ahead of his Thursday meeting at the Élysée, Retailleau said `feel-good diplomacy has failed` and called for a tougher stance toward Algeria.
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The measure arises at a time of severe diplomatic crisis with Algeria, after refusing to read in its territory 120 citizens subject to "an obligation to leave the French territory".
France to clamp down on Algerian dignitaries’ travel amid deportation dispute
French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is “in the process” of tightening travel conditions to France for “a number of Algerian dignitaries” after Algeria refused to take back 120 nationals who are under an obligation to leave French territory, government spokesperson Sophie Primas said on Wednesday.
Bruno Retailleau was again taken to the Algerian authorities, after Algiers refused to accept 120 nationals of the country under OQTF.
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ledauphine.comInterior Minister Bruno Retailleau tightened his tone after Algiers refused to take over 120 Algerian nationals under obligation to leave French territory.
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