Paris exempts “from its responsibilities”, retorts Algiers

Algeria accuses France this Thursday of exempting “its responsibilities” in the bilateral crisis.

Algiers announces. In addition, in a press release from his diplomacy, the denunciation of the agreement on the exemption of visas for the benefit of holders of diplomatic passports and service whose suspension announced the day before.

The letter. Meanwhile, where French President Emmanuel Macron makes this announcement, “exempts France from all of his responsibilities and makes all the wrongs bring to the Algerian part. However, Nothing is further from truth and reality, ”according to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

France brings “all wrongs” to Algeria – Paris exempts "from its responsibilities",

The relations between Paris. Similarly, Algiers have been going through an unprecedented crisis since the summer of 2024 after the France of a “under Moroccan sovereignty” for Western Sahara, a territory that has been contested by Morocco and the separatists of the Polisario, supported by Algiers for paris exempts “from its responsibilities”, 50 years.

In a letter Wednesday to his Prime Minister François Bayrou, Mr. Nevertheless, Macron advocated “more firmness” with regard to Algeria. by denouncing his inflexibility on the migratory issue and the detention of two French nationals that Paris arbitrary judge.

Regarding the visa exemption agreement. Algiers indicated that “it is France alone, which was at the origin of such a request. By deciding the suspension of this agreement. France offers Algeria the opportunity to announce the outright denunciation of this same agreement ”.

The Boualem Sansal file in the center

For Algiers. as soon as the crisis burst with France, after reversing on Western Sahara, France “proceeded by injunctions, ultimatums and summons”.

In his letter, Mr. Macron also asks his government to use the “Visa-Readmission” lever which makes it possible to suspend the issuance of. long-stay visas to citizens of a country whose authorities cooperate “insufficiently” to readmit their nationals in an irregular paris exempts “from its responsibilities”, situation.

Emmanuel Macron notably motivated the Tour de Vis towards Algiers by the situation of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. sentenced to five years in prison, in particular for “attack on national unity”, and the French journalist Christophe Gleizes, sentenced to seven years in prison in Algeria for “apology of terrorism”.

Mr. Macron nevertheless assured that his “objective remains to find effective and ambitious relationships with Algeria”.

Paris refuses a “perpetual confrontation”

On Thursday, Mr. Bayrou said that France “is not in the spirit of a perpetual confrontation” with Algiers. hopes to “one day find balanced and fair relationships”.

The measures requested Wednesday by the head of state in the government. “we will apply them not in the minds of a perpetual confrontation but in the spirit of one day finding relationships that are balanced and fair,” he said.