“Degrading treatments” suffered by Algerian passengers when they arrive at Paris airports provoke the wrath of Algeria. She announced by press release that she had summoned the French ambassador to Algiers on Tuesday, January 28. In diplomatic crisis with France, Algeria has expressed its “deep concern in the face of concordant testimonies of a number of Algerian nationals on provocative, degrading and discriminatory treatments to which they are subject by border police at the airports Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and d’Orly “, according to the text, without further details.
“Unacceptable practices”
“Following the confirmation of the veracity of this information”, the Secretary of State responsible for the national community abroad, Sofiane Chaib, summoned the French ambassador, Stéphane Romatet, “to signify the farm of the government of the government Algerian faced with such completely unacceptable actions, “added the official press release.
The Algerian official “asked the ambassador to inform his government of the need to take all the essential measures, so that it is ended, without delay, to these unacceptable acts and practices which dishonor the French government”. “He also affirmed the categorical rejection of Algeria of any attack, in any way whatsoever, to the dignity of his citizens, or to instrumentalize them for pressure, provocation or attempted intimidation at the ‘Contrary to their country “, still according to the press release.
Bruno Retailleau, “hateful figure”
The relations between the two countries deteriorated after the announcement at the end of July by Paris from the support of the Moroccan autonomy plan in Western Sahara, a territory with the UN-defined status and theater of a conflict for half a A century between Morocco and the Sahrawi independence from the Polisario Front, supported by Algiers. The quarrel has amplified with detention in Algeria since the mid-November of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal then the arrest in France at the beginning of the year of several Algerian and Franco-Algerian influencers for the apology of violence.
“Monday, Algerian travelers, equipped with visa in good standing, suffered a ordeal when they arrived at French airports, especially in Paris. At the origin of this punitive approach, hides Bruno Retailleau”, the French Minister of the Interior The government daily said on Tuesday El Moudjahid. “Haineful figure”, Bruno Retailleau “orchestrates a humiliation policy targeting the Algerians directly,” continues the newspaper.