Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal calls for denouncing the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968, to “set the limits and assume the balance of power with Algeria”, after a series of events which poisoned relations between both countries.
In a column in Le Figaro, he denounces in particular the arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, the dismissal by Algeria of an Algerian influencer expelled a few hours earlier from France, and “the provocations and insults of the hierarchs of the Algerian regime.
The 1968 agreement, which confers a special status on Algerians in terms of movement, residence and employment in France, “has today become an immigration channel in its own right, allowing family reunification and settlement of people, without them even having to know our language or show their integration”, accuses Gabriel Attal. “It makes it practically impossible to withdraw residence permits from Algerian nationals, even for reasons of public order.”
While several Algerian influencers “preachers of hatred” have been arrested in recent days in France after posting content online calling for violent acts, the former Prime Minister believes that calling into question the 1968 agreement is ” a first emergency”.
Faced with the Algerian regime which “sweeps away all our outstretched hands and continues to test our country”, “the time for firmness has come”, writes the boss of Renaissance, also denouncing the arrest in Algeria of Boualem Sansal. “It’s not just Boualem Sansal who is taken hostage, it’s France.”
“France must set limits and assume the balance of power,” he asserts. “France is a great power”, which “we do not intimidate” and which “we do not provoke without consequences”.
“It is time to get rid of guilt trials and memorial rent,” he adds, believing that his generation, which “did not experience French Algeria, the Algerian war or decolonization” , constitutes “a historic opportunity to establish a normal, dispassionate relationship”.
In addition to calling into question the Franco-Algerian agreement of 1968, he calls for “reducing the number of visas granted” and “penalizing the hierarchs who benefit from our largesse”, by returning to another agreement from 2007, which ” allows all holders of Algerian diplomatic passports to come and travel freely and without constraint in France.
Finally, “the commercial weapon can be a very useful tool”, he threatens, wishing for discussions at European level to, “if necessary, increase customs tariffs with Algeria”.
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