After months of diplomatic disaster, the “balance of power” technique in query | EUROtoday

After eight months of an unprecedented diplomatic disaster between France and Algeria, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, flies to Algiers, Sunday April 6. A flash go to to regain contact along with his Algerian counterpart, throughout which the boss of the Quai d’Orsay might be obtained by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. A visit thought of to be a small victory on the prime of the state, after months of showdown and powerful tensions inside the government on the road to be held in opposition to Algeria.

Triggered by the Paris ProMarocain reversal on Western Sahara, in July 2024, the quarrel worsened within the fall with the arrest of the Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal, sentenced Thursday, March 27 to 5 years in jail, for remarks thought of to be concerned within the integrity of Algerian territory.

In January, the repression by Algiers of the Algerian influencer Doualemn, sentenced to 5 months suspended jail sentence by French justice after his broadcast of a video on Tiktok calling for “Give a severe correction” An opponent of the regime in Algiers, has poisoned relations. In order to level out the failure of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau-his opponent for the election to the presidency of the LR occasion in mid-May-, on the origin of the expulsion of the influencer, the deputy (the republicans, LR) of Haute-Loire Laurent Wauquiez talked about “A humiliated France”.

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