By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 10 at 8:52 p.m.,
updated January 10 at 9:55 p.m.
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The day after the return to France of an Algerian influencer, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said he was “stunned” that the Algerian authorities had “refused to take back one of their nationals”.
France will not have “no other option than to retaliate” and “the Algerians continue this posture of escalation”the French Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Friday, while an Algerian influencer deported to Algeria on Thursday was returned to France.
Among “the levers that we could activate” appear “visas (…), development aid” or even “a number of other topics of cooperation”detailed Jean-Noël Barrot on the private channel LCIsaying to himself “stunned” that the Algerian authorities have “refused to take back one of their nationals”whose file is now “judicialized” In France.
Three Algerians and a Franco-Algerian were recently arrested for having posted hateful content against France online, in particular inciting “burn alive, kill and rape”while calling for violent acts, often against opponents of the Algerian regime.
“Doualemn”, a 59-year-old influencer, was arrested in Montpellier in the south of France, after a contentious video on TikToK then put on a plane Thursday afternoon for Algeria from where he was returned to France on same evening, Algeria having “inadmissible”according to the Ministry of the Interior.
While French President Emmanuel Macron had started in 2022 a «rapprochement» with Algeria on “the question of the colonial past”issues of tension have accumulated between the two countries, partners at the economic and security level.
