The French government has said it will retaliate if Algeria goes ahead with a threat to expel 12 officials of the French embassy in Algiers, the capital. Algeria has been protesting against the detention in Paris of its embassy staff, who the French accused of participating in the 2024 abduction of an Algerian government critic, Amir Boukhors.
Over the weekend, the Algerian government summoned the French ambassador to express its objection to the arrest of the Algerian consulate official. Algeria views Boukhors as a “saboteur linked to terrorist groups”.
Relations between France and Algeria came under strain late in 2024 when French President Emmanuel Macron recognised a plan for the autonomy of the disputed Western Sahara region under Moroccan sovereignty.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and the President Algeria M. Abdelmadjid Tebboune