In Algeria, this is no longer a shadow of a doubt. “Retailleau plays with fire,” is offended the daily The expression. Guest of Sud Radio this Wednesday, March 19, the Minister of the Interior risked new controversial declarations. “We are not belligious, we do not want war with Algeria. It is Algeria that attacks us. […] She must (she) do not play when we are convinced, with an identity document, a passport, that the national is Algerian. She must readmit it, “he said after the refusal by Algiers to take up expellable nationals.
Words that are not lacking “to shock by their threatening and devoid of any consideration for the principles of equity and mutual respect”, underlines Algeria dayadding that these “come under an attempt to make the relations already tense between the two nations”.
A minister “without faith or law”
On Monday, the secretary general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lounès Magramane, had received the officer’s officer from the French Embassy in Algeria, concerning the list received by names of sixty Algerian nationals “being the subject of decisions of distance from French territory”, in order to give him an official response. Unsurprisingly, “the Algerian authorities” announced “to reject the approach of the French party” both on “the form and on the merits”, can be read in an official press release from the ministry. In particular in question: “France’s desire to unilaterally modify the process of processing removal files, by short-circuiting the usual communication channel”, indicates The site in the morning of Algeria.
But beyond “to ensure a lesson in international law” reports El Moudjahid“Algeria responds to provocations, ultimatums and the Comminatory language” of a single man: Bruno Retailleau. According to the daily, the tenant of Place Beauvau “sinks into his anti-Algerian delirium” and seeks to “engage an showdown with Algeria by bombing the torso and multiplying hostile declarations”. And it’s not The expression who will say the opposite. “The master singer”, “this minister without faith or law […] suggests that all the evils of France would have a single origin: Algeria “.
Who really takes advantage of bilateral relations?
Unlike the Minister of the Interior, Emmanuel Macron had seemed to want to play the appeasement card in early March by saying “favorable, not to denounce, but to renegotiate” the 1968 agreement which grants a special status to Algerian nationals in France. A Cartesian position For the agency Algeria Press Service Who claims that France is the “country that takes advantage of these bilateral relations. According to this same source, “61 real estate is occupied by France on Algerian soil, with ridiculously low rents”. Quoting the news agency, the daily El Watan argues that the residence of the French ambassador spread over 4 hectares and is rented “to the symbolic franc, on the basis of an unchanged lease prize since 1962 until August 2023”. A “generosity” for France.
And this, not to mention the Algerian labor which benefits the hexagon which “largely contributed to the reconstruction and the economic development” of the country, recalls El Watan. For the agency Algeria Presse Service, if France wants to “today claim accounts, it will first have to be accountable”.