The diplomatic crisis between France and Algeria threatens to name their new attempt to reconcile

Relations between France Y AlgeriaAnd that crossed regularly with ascending and landing, they spent days for one of their worst moments. the The arrest of the Algerian diplomat In Paris, it causes a crisis that continues to climb every day that passes. The governments of both countries accuse the acts of disposary, and at the present time, measures have already caused the expulsion of dozens of officials and An invitation to the consultation of the French ambassador.
Last week, the French security forces arrested a Algerian consular official in the street, along with two other Algerians participating in the assumption of the activist Influential Amir Dies in April 2024. Algeria The immediate editorial student He rejected “firmly, whether in form or in the background, the reasons that the French Prosecutor to combat terrorism required to support his decision to put a consular agent in temporary detention.”
The first decision to invite came on Saturday from the French ambassador to Algeria, Stephen Roomet, to protest the decision. Everything quickly rose and on Monday the Algerian authorities decided to give 48 hours to Twelve officials at the embassy and the French consulate to leave the countryLingly blame the Interior Minister Galik.
In fact, Algeria referred directly to the minister, Bruno RetarioTo be behind the decision to detention his fellow in Paris a few days before that, and he was responsible for “the rotation taken by relations between Algeria and France at a time when when They just entered in a puff“And this is that after a year -old year between the two countries, there was a phone conversation on March 31 between the presidents of the two countries that followed a visit from the French Foreign Minister to Algeria.
The owner of the foreign affairs, Jean -Nawil Barrot, was the person responsible for contacting his ambassador to his ambassador in Algeria on Tuesday and announces the expulsion of twelve Algerian officials who worked at the embassy or consulting that country on the French soil. Elysee said in a statement “panic” to expel French officials and stressed that “the Algerian authorities are responsible for A. The brutal deterioration of our bilateral relationshipsIn addition, he stressed that the Minister of the Interior “has nothing to do with judicial decisions” and that “justice in France is independent. “
Algeria now said it “surrounds” France’s decisions and considered that the “current crisis” is the result of a “conspiracy from the extreme French right.” The Algerian position said in the open air.Algeria adopted a presentation and sovereigntyAnd that the arrest of its official took place in the “unpublished conditions, without resorting to legal procedures. “
A broken reconciliation process
These tensions that started between the two countries have been cut off months after the crisis, since the French President, Emmanuel MacronIt will be perfect in July 2024 with Moroccan position on Western SaharaIt means excluding the possibility of independence referendum for the former Spanish colony. In Algeria, this caused the main support of the Polisario Front, and its ambassador immediately withdrew to Paris. A similar struggle for points with Spain after changing the position of a government Pedro Sanchez On this same topic.
From there, Algeria He refused to accept Algerian citizens By France for security reasons, a bilateral agreement broke. To all this, the prison sentence was added for a period of five years from the writer Boalem Sansal, which has both nationalities and is tired of cancer.
The relations between Algeria and France (former colonial power) were often often A storm of Algerian independence In 1962, they have deteriorated greatly since last summer. In addition, issues such as migration, colonial memory and the weight of Algerian societies in French territory continue to influence bilateral political dynamics.