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LThe French ambassador to Algeria, Stéphane Romatet, was “summoned” by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs final week, in response to a number of media, together with the federal government every day El Moujahid.
According to this official media, it will be a matter of “notifying him of the firm disapproval of the highest Algerian authorities in the face of the numerous French provocations and hostile acts towards Algeria […] These actions cannot remain without consequences.”
“ Paris wants to destabilize Algeria »
The information, which has not yet been relayed by the official press agency, APS, or by Foreign Affairs, is detailed in other newspapers. “During the meeting which took place within the framework of the convocation, strong warnings were launched and the French ambassador was asked to transmit them to the authorities of his country, concerning the escalation of hostilities by the French Directorate General of External Security (DGSE) targeting state institutions supported by the bad intentions of Paris which wants to destabilize Algeria,” writes El Khabar.
What is it about? On December 7, the official Algerian tv, ENTV, and the general public steady information channel, AL24, broadcast an “investigation”, titled “Failure to plot, the eagles of Algeria triumph”. A former factor of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, who has since returned to Algeria and having spent a number of years in jail, testifies overtly in entrance of the digital camera concerning the recruitment try, in response to him, in 2022, by a DGSE officer, who offered himself as a member of the Artemis affiliation, a French affiliation combating towards radicalization.
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“A Machiavellian plan brilliantly foiled by the Algerian security services. This nonsense leaves no room for doubt as to the intentions of French lobbies hostile to Algeria and their obstinacy driven by the use of underhanded methods to destabilize the country,” feedback El Moujahid in its version this morning, linking this affair to the “media offensive of rare intensity » in France following the arrest of the writer Boualem Sansal and his incarceration.
Armament for the MAK
The same media cited above add that “supporting evidence, Algiers provided the official representative of France in Algeria with strongly probative elements of this repeated and blatant hostility on the part of Paris”, citing “attempts, fortunately foiled by the Algerian security services, French pharmacies or in more or less direct link with the highest French spheres of influence, to introduce via the port of Béjaïa a quantity of weapons and ammunition from from the French port of Marseille. Armament whose nature and quantity have not been specified to us, but whose destination is no longer in doubt in the eyes of Algiers: the MAK, the terrorist movement of the renegade Ferhat Mehenni,” in response to Algerian Evening.
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Rachad, group of former members of the Islamic Salvation Front (dissolved in 1992) in exile, and the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia are described by Algiers as “terrorist entities”.
In the record of reprimands are additionally cited “ meetings bringing together, around French diplomats of various ranks, mainly consular agents reporting to the DGSE, people known for their declared and permanent hostility towards Algerian institutions. For the moment, and in the state of our information, the names of these “Algerians” in conclave within the enclosures of the official French illustration in Algeria haven’t been communicated”, nonetheless in response to the identical supply.
“ Patience limits exceeded »
During the summons of the French ambassador to the Foreign Affairs, “Algiers also wanted to express in the strongest possible manner its refusal to further tolerate such actions and proven attempts at blackmail,” studies Algerian Evening. “Failing which, reveals our source, the Democratic and Popular Algerian Republic places the cursor higher, explaining bluntly that Algerian patience has limits which, in this case, have been exceeded, our country therefore giving its all right to respond in urgent forms, intensity and gradation to these aggressive, malicious acts and actions which have lasted too long,” continues the Algerian every day.
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This new diplomatic and media escalation is a part of the continuity of the disaster between Algiers and Paris since France’s recognition of the “Moroccan nature” of Western Sahara final July. Tensions growing since enterprise controversies Kamel Daoud and Boualem Sansal in a triangle of crises Algiers-Rabat-Paris.
Officially, France has not but reacted to this new escalation.
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