A relationship with the judgment, in any case reduced to the bare minimum. Never since 1962, the Franco-Algerian link had not been denied at this point, a symptom of a psychological abyss between two capitals who no longer understand each other. In the space of forty-eight hours, Paris and Algiers carried out mutual expulsions of twenty-four of their diplomatic and consular agents, twelve on each side.
And by reminding simultaneously “For consultation” his ambassador in post in Algiers, France aligns, in the register of “La Chaise Empte”, on Algeria, which had already “withdraw” its ambassador in Paris on July 30, 2024 following the French reversal ProMarocain on Western Sahara. In the absence of a frank rupture, difficult to assume over the duration of the interpenetration of the two companies, the bilateral relationship will enter into a prolonged state of hibernation, prior to a guaranteed recalibration of the links between the two countries.
The bitter irony of this great failed meeting that has become the Franco-Algerian connection is that the announcement of the stiffening of Paris came from Emmanuel Macron himself, the most “pro-algeria” president that the Ve Republic has never known. Tuesday, April 15, the Elysée made public its decision to expel twelve Algerian diplomatic and consular agents in France in response to an equivalent measure taken two days earlier by Algiers against agents of the French Embassy.
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