French authorities decided to cancel the residence permit and deport the Algerian citizen, who is expected to be tried in France at the end of February. Thereupon, the phenomenon was sent to Algeria by plane yesterday morning, but the Algerian government did not allow “Doualemn” to enter the country.
The French Ministry of Internal Affairs announced that the person it deported was refused entry to the country by the Algerian authorities. Doualemn, who was sent back to France on the same day, was taken to the Mesnil-Amelot Detention Center in the Seine-et-Marne province.
Two more Algerians with social media accounts with followers in France were detained on the grounds of “spreading hate crimes and inciting violence”.
THE ARREST OF ALGIERIAN WRITER BOUALEM SANSAL BECAME A NEW SUBJECT OF TENSION
French President Emmanuel Macron called on the Algerian administration to immediately release the Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, whom he arrested yesterday.
The Algerian government had described the French President’s statements criticizing Sansal’s arrest as “blatant interference in the country’s internal affairs”.
Sansal, a writer of Algerian origin, returned to his country from France, where he had lived for many years, in November 2024, and was arrested a few days later after he made statements claiming that the Oran and Muasker governorates in Western Algeria were Moroccan lands before they were colonized by the French in 1830.
It is known that the author, who supported Israel and France in France and expressed his views against Muslims and the Algerian revolution, held a high-level position in the Algerian Ministry of Industry before going to France.
RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND ALGERIA ARE TENSE IN RECENT YEARS
France’s announcement that it supported the autonomy plan in favor of Morocco for the Western Sahara region of Morocco, where there are sovereignty disputes, strained relations with Algeria, which supports independence supporters in the region. Algeria withdrew its ambassador from Paris in July 2024 in response to France’s Western Sahara step.
There are also historical problems waiting for solution between the two countries outside of Western Sahara.
These problems include the Algerian archive, which the French authorities have refused to give for years, and the return of the skulls of the leaders of the popular revolution in the Museum of Man in Paris, the payment of compensation for the victims of the nuclear tests carried out by France in the Algerian Desert between 1960 and 1966, and the War of Independence (1954- It clarifies the fate of 2,200 people who disappeared during the war in 1962.
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