The return to France of an Algerian influencer deported to Algeria angered Bruno Retailleau. This affair risks exacerbating tensions between the two countries, already weakened by internal differences in France over the management of the situation. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the time is no longer for procrastination.
“Algeria seeks to humiliate France”: the return to France of an Algerian influencer expelled to Algeria aroused the anger of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, on Friday and risks further worsening Franco-French relations. Algerians already tense.
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“We have reached an extremely worrying threshold with Algeria,” added Bruno Retailleau, who was speaking during a trip to Nantes on the subject of visas. “I think that France cannot tolerate this situation,” he said, calling for “evaluating all the means at our disposal vis-à-vis Algeria” to “defend our interests” .
On the Quai d’Orsay side, the diplomats are not there yet. They are even very far from it. No question of launching into an announcement effect, we judge internally. As a reminder, in recent years France has given between 110 and 130 million euros to Algeria per year.
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For the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we do not wish to enter into these considerations. Visa issues, development aid issues do not work as a means of pressure.
First dissensions within the Bayrou government
“We need to see commercial relations on a European scale,” said a senior diplomatic source to Europe 1, adding that the movement of people had to be managed at European level.
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An analysis which is absolutely not that of the Ministry of the Interior. This creates initial dissensions within the Bayrou government. A French diplomat told us, “at the Quai d’Orsay, we do not play the same score as at Beauvau”.
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