Tensions between France and Algeria did not move far away from the surface, and moved to expel 12 officials working in Algeria, French embassy and consulates.
Algeria Foreign Ministry Announced on Monday French officials reported 48 hours to leave the country.
Algeria's decision was caught in accordance with the theft of a Algeria, known in the last year of an algeria officer in the last year “Amir dz“
“This disgraceful action, who wants to insult the Minister of Internal Affairs, is not taken into account in the consular status of the agent,” he said.
France reacted with its threats. “We are ready to move,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot. “Algeria has only a few hours to return the government's decisions.”
The Algerian official “was accused of suspicion of detention, abduction, illegal arrest or terrorist,” French National Antiterrorism Prosecutors, said in a statement.
He and two others were detained.
“Amir DZ has lived in France since 2016 and was given political asylum in 2023.
For years, Algeria, fraud and fraud and demanded extradition of nine international arrests on the charges of terror crimes. French courts rejected the request.
“What societies have begun from trauma, so there are people interested in this climate of this climate of this dispute in Algeria and France,” A political scientist at a political scanthéon-sorbonne at the University of North Africa and Paris.
France decided as a century of algeria, a colony and then part of the territory. Algeria, in 1962, won independence after a devastating war, but tensions between the two countries were almost permanent.
Last week, Mr. Barrot visited the interior to restore relations and relax the almost annual diplomatic crisis.
Attitude, President Emmanuel Macron, Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, President Emmanuel Macrone, in late March. However, the Illussian of peace proved.
Mr. Macron's relations have been particularly bad since last summer He announced the French support Algeria's sovereignty on Western Sahara.
In the last November, a Algerian French writer Boualem Sansal, Boualem Sanansion, arrested the situation on the accusation of national unity and security.
Mr. Macron, many intellectuals and officers angry with. Called the author's release, believed that 80-year-old He was sentenced to five years in prison at the end of March.