Algiers accuses Retailleau of “Barbouzeries” | EUROtoday

On Apr 16, 2025

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HASWhen they flew to Paris yesterday Tuesday on the finish of the day, the twelve French diplomatic brokers (and their households) expelled By Algiers, the Élysée printed a press launch saying a symmetrical measure by expelling “twelve agents serving in the Algerian consular and diplomatic network in France”, and the reminder “for consultation” of the French ambassador to Algiers, Stéphane Romate, anticipated this Thursday in Paris.

Algiers had determined to expel the French diplomatic brokers following arrest of three Algerians, together with a consular agent of the Créteil consulate within the abduction case a yr in the past, of the controversial Algerian activist Amir Boukhorsalias Amir Dz.

Targeted

This Wednesday, Algiers “took note” of the French response. A “measured” response, in accordance with our sources. The checklist of twelve Algerian diplomats declared Persona Non Grata was communicated on the finish of Wednesday morning on the Algerian Embassy in Paris (the ambassador having been “Withdrawn” Since this summer season.)

The concentrating on of French diplomatic brokers connected to the Ministry of the Interior (two of the DGSI, six cops and 4 gendarmes from the Directorate of International Security Cooperation (DCIS)) is assumed by Algiers. Qualifying the arrest of his consular agent as a “unworthy process”, the Algerian international affairs assertion charged the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau.

Read too “Minister of hatred”: Bruno Retailleau seen from Algeria “This unworthy act is the consequence of the negative, distressing and constant attitude of the French Minister of the Interior vis-à-vis Algeria. This minister, who excels in the barbouzeries for purely personal purposes, is in a blatant lack of political discernment, ”crossed the press launch.

So, Bruno Retailleau “Porters the whole responsibility of the turn that relations between Algeria and France take when they had just started a Decrisation phase Thanks to the telephone interview between the heads of state of the two countries, which was followed by the visit to Algeria of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, “mentioned the press launch.

“Jacasseries”

Speaking on Algerian public tv, the Secretary of State to Foreign Affairs, in control of the nationwide neighborhood overseas, Sofiane Chaib, mentioned that the entire measures taken and having led to the arrest of the Algerian consular agent “were decided at the instigation of services under the supervision of the French Minister of the Interior”.

The official every day life El Moudjahid Written in its version of at the moment: “If, in a recent past, it was said that Retailleau, Ragaillardi by the media of Bolloré, was doing the low -level show, what to say today after such a staging of the filmed arrest of an Algerian consular agent? “And to recall the Mantra of Algiers:” Algeria has clearly declared it: it only pays attention to the official voice of France, represented by its president and that of its Minister of Foreign Affairs. All the other jacketies are only the foam of an extreme right which wants to redo the Algerian war, to execute an electoral agenda ”.

Read too How Paris and Algiers prepare the end of the crisisThe very sovereignist Patriotic Algeria site goes further: ” This servile disciple of Philippe de Villiers, straight out of the reactionary again kitchen of Puy du Fou, confuses the Ministry of the Interior with a presidential springboard, revealing the mental puppet of an overbuilder with too lengthy enamel for his too brief mind. “Macron must now choose: either he purges Beauvau of this political parasite, or he leaves this pyromaniac firefighter carbonize the last bridges with Algiers”, helps the identical media in an article entitled Papon faculty !

Reciprocal obsessions

However, observes an Algerian editorialist, “Algiers makes Retailleau an obsession like the latter makes Algeria an obsession”. “We will have to get out of this prism which energizes any exit track of the crisis,” he provides. “To my knowledge, we have not been French departments since 1962, we no longer depend on the French Ministry of the Interior or that of the DOM-TOM, phosphorizes another Algerian analyst. So why be so obsessed with the actions of Retailleau? »»

“In summary, Algiers refuses to believe that justice would be independent in France and affirms that Retailleau cannot be satisfied with a appeasement which does not correspond to the bellicose posture carrying electoral earnings”, we think of Algiers. For this other observer, “the actions of Retailleure borders on treason: he maneuver against the tide of his chief of the executive who remains Macron, guaranteeing the superior interests of France”.

Read too The Mulhouse attack, Bruno Retailleau and the nightmare of “impossible” “Can we talk about divergence between Macron and Retailleau?” », request On X the ex-ambassador and former Minister Abdelaziz Rahabi: “In the current crisis between Algiers and Paris, I did not believe from the start, in a divergence of fundamental-which favors part of my compatriots-between President Macron and his Minister of the Interior, but rather to a wise distribution of roles. This is even more blatant in a French situation marked by a pre -electoral effervescence which has made Algeria, its community and Islam the center of its debates ”.

The substance of the issue? Western Sahara

The conservative every day Echorouk For its half, “the principle cause for the strain” between the two countries, evoking the press release from Jean-Noël Barrot following an interview with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita. The French diplomacy chief reaffirmed “The intangible place” of France, according to which “the current and the way forward for Western Sahara are a part of Moroccan sovereignty”, in accordance with a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, Tuesday.

“France’s support at the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in 2007, which arouses an increasingly wide international consensus, is clear and constant. This constitutes the only basis to lead to a fair, sustainable political solution. This declaration indicates Echorouk“Represents the last nail in the coffin of Macron’s policy towards Algeria. This happened at the wrong time and in the wrong direction, revealing the toxic intentions of the French administration towards Algeria and its vital interests ”.

Read too Western Sahara: what the French rally means within the Moroccan placeThus, in accordance with this every day life, “Paris does not want to reduce its level of provocation to Algeria”.

“These provocations are starting to have consequences,” continues Echoroukciting the cancellation, yesterday Tuesday, by the Council of Algerian financial renewal (CREA, employers near the choice) of the go to he was to make in France, in addition to the assembly deliberate with Medef. This go to was made in the course of the journey of Jean-Noël Barrot to Algiers on April 6.

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The kangaroo of the day

Answer

According to a CREA press launch, this determination is motivated by “a measure taken by the French authorities, strongly advised against a manager of a French maritime transport company to go to Algeria to materialize an investment project”. In reality, that is the go to that was to make in Algiers, yesterday April 15, Rodolphe Saadéboss of CMA CGM, to announce main initiatives in Algeria. According to our sources, the maritime transport magnate had itself “postponed its visit because of the unfacing context between the two countries”.

Tensions “will repercussions in several sectors”, remorse diplomatic sources which concern a poisonous chain response, between exchanges of evictions which might attain neurally diplomatic and consular posts, or overflows on different topics of cooperation, from the economic system to training.

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