The Algerian consulate in Toulouse is in the crosshairs of Bruno Retailleau. The Minister of the Interior accused him, in an interview with Figaro This Friday, July 18, to have “Delivered hundreds of passports to illegals”. For the tenant of Place Beauvau, this practice is an attack on the rules of reciprocity between France and Algeria, while Algiers refuses to resume its nationals under OQTF on French territory.
The first cop in France will institute the prefects not to recognize the passports issued “Under these conditions” by the pink city consulate. Documents already distributed cannot therefore be used in regularization or stay procedures.
“If the 1968 agreements are not denounced before the end of this five -year term, it will have to be done after the next presidential election”
Bruno Retailleau has also announced his intention to restrict access to the territory to certain executives of the Algerian regime, accused of “Degree France”. In addition, the Minister of the Interior called for a general questioning of the legal framework between France and Algeria. “If the 1968 agreements are not denounced before the end of this five -year term, it will have to be done after the next presidential election”he decided.
In the same interview, Bruno Retailleau pleaded for a firmer diplomatic line, evoking a suspension of negotiations between the European Union and Algeria on an association agreement. “Algeria wins much more than Europe”he assured.
Finally, the president of the Republicans insists on the need to act in the face of the situation of the two French nationals detained in Algeria, the writer Boualem Sansal and the journalist Christophe Gleizes. In a subliminal message sent to Emmanuel Macron and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, the former senator said that “The diplomacy of good feelings failed” and that it is now necessary “Assume a balance of power”.