
French Voters: No Algerian Migration Until Country Takes Back Deportees
Both the French judiciary and Algiers officials have fought to keep potential Algerian deportees in Europe.
Both the French judiciary and Algiers officials have fought to keep potential Algerian deportees in Europe.
Algiers is looking to “humiliate” Paris by blocking deportation efforts, the French interior minister said.
The Franco-Algerian author was in the crosshairs of a government he has vocally criticised.
His lawyer fears he will be persecuted if he returns to Algeria.
Diplomatic relations with Algeria quickly deteriorated into crisis, leading Algiers to withdraw its ambassador from Paris.
Several measures in the French immigration bill currently under discussion will not apply to Algerians, who have benefited from privileged status since 1968.
The move highlights Algeria’s geopolitical and economic reorientation toward Russia and China and away from the collective West.
The new Algeria-China partnership, along side Algeria’s growing military and economic relationship with Russia, feed into a regional conflict between Algeria and Morocco over Western Sahara.
Russia played on long-established trade ties with Algiers and the historic memory of the nation’s independence struggle against France as it entrenched military cooperation with Algeria last week.
Illegal crossings of the Mediterranean intensify, with human traffickers mainly departing from Morocco and Algeria.