“Escalation” against France: Algiers denounces a “disinformation campaign”

Faced with reproaches from Paris, Algiers responded. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the accusations this Saturday, January 11 “climbing” et “d’humiliation” of France, after the return to France of an Algerian influencer expelled to his country by France (new window). For Algiers, this is a “disinformation campaign”or even “mystification” against Algeria.

A campaign orchestrated “by the extreme right”, says Algiers

“Algeria seeks to humiliate France”had launched Bruno Retailleau, before Jean-Noël Barrot followed suit. This Friday on LCI, the tenant of the Quai d’Orsay had warned that France would not have “no other option than to retaliate” and “the Algerians continue this escalating posture” et “this posture of hostility”. “There is a whole arsenal of diplomatic response, some things we say, others we don’t. We will do it at the pace and in the way we deem most effective, mobilizing all the levers at our disposal “the minister explained on our antenna (new window).

Warnings which have further aggravated already tense Franco-Algerian relations. And pushed Algiers to describe a campaign “disinformation” orchestrated by “the vengeful and hateful extreme right, as well as its certified heralds within the French government”.

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The Algerian ministry specifies that in the face of “overruns” and to “violations of acquired rights” by “Doualemn”, this influencer arrested in Montpellier after launching calls for violence on TikTok, “the Algerian decision in this case is driven by the desire to enable him to respond to the accusations brought against him, to assert his rights and to defend himself within the framework of a fair and equitable judicial process on French territory” .

As a reminder, the Algerian national had been put on a plane Thursday afternoon for Algeria from where he was returned to France the same evening, Algeria having “inadmissible”, according to the Ministry of the Interior. He is currently placed in an administrative detention center.