Since 2007, an agreement between the French and Algerian diplomats allows holders of an Algerian diplomatic passport to travel to France without a visa. The Minister of Justice is today proposing to end this exception.
Faced with the deterioration of relations between France and Algeria, and the additional humiliation represented by the refusal, by the Maghreb country, to agree to take back an Algerian influencer expelled from France, what can France do to increase the your ? The Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin declared Sunday on LCI that he wanted “DELETE” a Franco-Algerian agreement “from 2013” which allows Algerian elites to travel to France without a visa. According to him, this agreement allows “thousands” of “Algerian leaders” of “move freely” in France, outside of any control by the authorities.
In the entourage of the Minister of Justice, it is emphasized that this option would have “more impact than denouncing the ’68 agreement” between the two countries, a treaty that Gabriel Attal and Édouard Philippe have called for to be abandoned following the right and the extreme right, and which facilitates the conditions of immigration to France for Algerian nationals. Indeed, we justify…
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