NARRATIVE – In Algiers, Bruno Retailleau’s firmness strategy is considered to be “counterproductive” and would harm the release of Boualem Sansal.
Algiers and Paris had chosen to observe themselves to find out who would take the next step towards the other. It is ultimately a new exchange of hostilities that has committed.
It all started on Thursday, July 24, when the Algerian Foreign Ministry summoned the French officer (the ambassador, recalled in Paris, has been absent since April) to express his “Astonishment” After his Embassy agents were prohibited access to the reserved areas of Parisian airports to recover diplomatic suitcases. In the name of “Principle of reciprocity”the Algerian authorities decided on Saturday, July 26, July 26, to withdraw from the French Embassy the privileged access to Algerian ports and airports for the delivery of its diplomatic suitcases.
This prerogative is part of the exercise of diplomatic missions protected by the Vienna Convention, and as such, is inviolable: no state can open it or grasp it. An agent is accredited …
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