The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, on Tuesday, April 15, decided to expel 12 consular officials and Algerian diplomats and remembered the French ambassador to Algiers, said his office, as it increases between the two countries.
The reprisal measure occurred after the former French colony ordered Sunday that 12 French officials of the Interior Ministry were within 48 hours.
President Emmanuel Macron’s office said the 12 French officials expelled from Algeria were “on the way to France.” He called Algiers to “resume dialogue,” saying that the Algerian authorities had the responsibility of tasks “for the sudden decline in our bilateral relations.”
He said he was “stunned” that relationships had tasks in such a way only two weeks after a phone call between the president of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Macron, in an attempt to repair the ties.
The relations between Paris and Algiers were under tension last year when France recognized Sovereigtyty Marcoquí about the disputed Western Sahara, where Algeria has long backed the Polisario front for a long time in favor of independence.
Relationships were closer even more when Algeria arrested the French writer-Algerio Boalem Sansal in November for national security positions after telling a French media out of the extreme right that the territory of Morocco was truncated in favor of the rule of the duration of Algeria.
The Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the person of 12 people did not pleasant after the sentence in France of an Algerian consular official. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barot had previously said that expulsion orders were linked to the sentence of three Algerian citizens in France.
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“In this difficult context, France will defend its interests and continue to demand that Algeria fulfill its obligations towards him, in deprivation with respect to our national security and cooperation in migration,” added the Elysée.
Algeria has refused to recover the nationals who France ordered to leave, including a 37 -year -old man who stabbed in the French city of Mulhouse in February, killing a person.
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