“I really wish” that Algeria accepts it, “It is an obligation that is the responsibility of the Algerian authorities at the end of the rules that govern our relationship”said on Friday 1is August Jean-Noël Barrot on Franceinfo. The Paris Court of Appeal authorized on July 10 the release of this Algerian, now 57 years old, found in particular to have laid the bomb that exploded in the RER B Station Saint-Michel on July 25, 1995, killing eight and 150 injured. He was sentenced in 2002 and then on appeal in 2003 to life, with a 22 -year -old security period.
This release is subject to a “Remote measure and subject to the condemned to leave French territory and not to appear there”. However, Algiers and Paris have been going through a deep diplomatic crisis for over a year, and Algiers notably rejects expulsion procedures from France. French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on July 23 that 120 people referred to by such measures were not taken up by the Algerian authorities. “At this point, no consular pass has been signed so it remains in detention”said on Friday morning a source close to the file.
Diplomatic tensions between Paris and Algiers
“It has been months since Algiers no longer accepts anyone from the list of people that France wants to expel towards Algeria. In this particular case, I believe that Algeria would show its sense of responsibility by taking up its national ”added Jean-Noël Barrot, regretting that relations between the two countries are “In a standstill”imputing this to the Algerian authorities. Paris and Algiers are going through an acute diplomatic crisis, marked by expulsions of diplomats on both sides as well as a freezing of all cooperation in particular migration and judicial.
Boualem Bensaïd is considered to be the coordinator of the wave of six attacks which struck France in 1995, claimed by the Armed Islamic group (GIA) Algerian, which reproached France, former colonial power, its ” support »At the Algiers diet. His lawyer Romain Ruiz said he had no news from his release on Friday morning. He estimated that“Introducing this situation to the Algerian authorities is a rewriting of history”and that she is “Just as much” The result of the “Irresponsible policy of Bruno Retailleau”supporter of a hard line with Algiers.