France and Algeria in New Standoff Over Diplomat Expulsions
Paris pledges firm response as historic tensions flare into open dispute.
Paris pledges firm response as historic tensions flare into open dispute.
While rejecting its own citizens deported from France, Algeria had no qualms about dumping over 1,000 migrants in the desert.

For the first time in a long while, France is sending Algeria the clear message that it will not tolerate further provocations by its former colony.

Algiers expels diplomats after France arrests suspected Algerian agents in kidnapping plot.
Paris said on Monday, April 14th, that Algiers has threatened to declare 12 French diplomats personae non gratae in retaliation for the detention of an

Given Boualem Sansal’s age and health, it could be a slow death sentence.

The shadow of Donald Trump’s policy of firmness towards the Latin American countries that initially refused to take back their nationals expelled from the U.S. hangs over Retailleau’s position.

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.