Decryption – At the highest peak of the State, this gesture of the French judicial authorities was experienced as an affront.
The expulsion by Algiers of the twelve French civil servants of the Ministry of the Interior stationed at the French Embassy, a week after the promises of the new departure, torn by Jean-Noël Barrot in Algiers, provoked in the corridors of French and incomprehension French diplomacy. But in Algiers, Tuesday, on the set of the television news, Sofiane Chaïb, Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of the national community abroad, explained in a very calm voice the reasons for the Algerian wrath: “The consular agent was arrested in completely unpublished circumstances, on April 8, in full public road, without the competent French authorities took the trouble to officially notify this arrest by the diplomatic channel. »» The latter was done, he continued, “In contravention of immunities and privileges provided for by all the international texts and conventions from which the consular agent affects”
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