{"id":282642,"date":"2025-04-15T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/algeria-expels-12-french-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T15:47:09","slug":"algeria-expels-12-french-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/algeria-expels-12-french-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Expels 12 French Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/15\/multimedia\/15int-france-algeria-pzbt\/15int-france-algeria-pzbt-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Algeria Expels 12 French Officials\" title=\"Algeria Expels 12 French Officials\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tensions between France and Algeria, never far from the surface, have flared again as Algeria moved to expel 12 officials working at the French Embassy and consulates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Algerian Foreign Ministry <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.dz\/fr\/announcements\/statement-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-embassy-of-france-14042025\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced on Monday<\/a> that the French officials had been given 48 hours to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Algeria\u2019s decision followed the arrest in France on Friday of an Algerian official accused of involvement in the kidnapping last year of an Algerian influencer known as \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amir_dz_1\/?hl=en\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Amir DZ<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis disgraceful act, by which the minister of the interior sought to humiliate Algeria, was perpetrated with no regard for the consular status of the agent,\u201d Algeria\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">France reacted with threats of its own. \u201cWe are ready to act,\u201d said Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot, the French foreign minister. \u201cThe Algerian authorities only have a few hours left to reverse their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Algerian official was indicted on suspicion of \u201carrest, abduction, unlawful confinement or arbitrary detention in connection with a terrorist undertaking,\u201d French national antiterrorism prosecutors said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He and two other people have been detained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAmir DZ\u201d has been living in France since 2016 and was granted political asylum in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For years, Algeria has demanded his extradition, issuing nine international arrest warrants on accusations of fraud and terrorist offenses. French courts rejected the request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNeither societies have moved on from trauma, so there are always people in Algeria and in France who have an interest in torpedoing this climate of appeasement,\u201d Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a political scientist with a focus on the Arab world and North Africa and an associate researcher at the University of Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">France ruled Algeria for more than a century, as a colony and then a part of its territory. Algeria won its independence in 1962, after a devastating war, but tensions between the two countries have remained almost constant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last week, Mr. Barrot visited Algiers in an attempt to revive relations and put to rest an almost yearlong diplomatic crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The relationship had seemed to ease when President Emmanuel Macron called his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, in late March. But the conciliation proved illusory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Relations have been particularly bad since last summer, when Mr. Macron <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/30\/world\/europe\/france-morocco-western-sahara.html\" title=\"\">announced French support<\/a> of Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territory whose control Algeria disputes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The situation was aggravated by the arrest last November in Algiers of an Algerian French writer, Boualem Sansal, on accusations of undermining national unity and security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Macron, alongside many intellectuals and officials, was outraged. He has called for the release of the author, believed to be 80, who was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/world\/africa\/algeria-boualem-sansal-prison-france.html\" title=\"\">sentenced to five years in prison<\/a> in late March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/15\/world\/europe\/france-algeria-expulsions-relations.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions between France and Algeria, never far from the surface, have flared again as Algeria moved to expel 12 officials working at the French Embassy and consulates. The Algerian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that the French officials had been given 48 hours to leave the country. Algeria\u2019s decision followed the arrest in France on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/04\/15\/multimedia\/15int-france-algeria-pzbt\/15int-france-algeria-pzbt-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88725,219078,171065,171066,52019,9403,8456,3096,120,137131],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282644,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282642\/revisions\/282644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}