In the midst of a crisis between Paris and Algiers, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau assumes, this Sunday, March 2, the establishment of a “graduated response” against Algeria and ensures that certain Algerian nationals have already been expelled when they arrived at Roissy airport, in particular the wife of the Algerian ambassador to Mali.
“We have already implemented a response to our borders, in Roissy in particular, where we now demand an order of mission for Algerians presenting a diplomatic passport in our border posts. Algerian nationals have thus had to be returned to their country,” explains the minister in An interview with Figarotwo days after statements by Emmanuel Macron trying to calm the game with Algeria.
“This graduated response is the most effective,” said Minister Retailleau. “It first makes it possible to go to individual measures, in particular vis-à-vis members of the Algerian nomenklatura,” he adds.
Algeria fulminates against the “hateful Minister of the Interior”
According to a source close to the file, this is what happened for the woman of the Algerian ambassador to Mali, prohibited from entry into French territory on the grounds that “did not have all her travel documents”.
“Barely a few hours, after the words of the French President, his hateful interior Minister presented a layer, by instructing the border police services to repress the wife of the Algerian ambassador to Mali, by prohibiting him from entry to French territory under the pretext that she had no money,” said the Algerian agency APS on Saturday. “And yet the diplomat’s wife was in good standing, she presented her accommodation certificate, an insurance document and the credit card of her husband,” added the agency denouncing “the provocation of too much” of the Minister of the Interior.
Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron took the floor for the first time after several attacks in recent weeks of Bruno Retailleau against Algiers. The Head of State called on the two capitals to “re -engage a substantive work” on their immigration agreements.