TRIBUNE – The execution rate of OQTFs targeting Algerian nationals is around 7%, a particularly low percentage since the last Franco-Algerian diplomatic crisis, notes Xavier Driencourt, former French ambassador to Algeria.
Xavier Driencourt is a diplomat and former French ambassador to Algeria. He published The Algerian Enigma. Chronicles of an embassy in Algiers (Editions de l’Observatoire, March 2022).
The atrocious death of the young Filipina by a Moroccan national once again raises the question of the execution of the OQTF. Morocco is rather a “good student” when it comes to issuing the famous consular passes necessary for their execution. In this case, the problems were more Franco-French. Regarding Algeria, the OQTF execution rate is around 7%, particularly low since the last Franco-Algerian diplomatic crisis.
Therefore the question of the means available to France vis-à-vis Algiers is often asked: what means of pressure do we have? France has a certain number of cards which, put together, if there was a strong political will, that is to say the will not to give in to the dey…
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