ALGIERS- The President of the French Republic delivered soothing statements from Portugal intended to ease this crisis in Algerian-French relations, which have never reached this level of deterioration. Unfortunately, just a few hours after the French President’s statements, his hateful Interior Minister added fuel to the fire by instructing border police services to deny entry to the wife of Algeria’s Ambassador to Mali, forbidding her from entering French territory on the pretext that she lacked funds. However, the diplomat’s wife was in compliance with regulations, having presented her accommodation certificate, an insurance document, and her husband’s credit card.
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This latest provocation by the Interior Minister, guided by his close friends, crosses the line.
Things are now clear: this Interior Minister, who has made Algeria his sole and only agenda, has deliberately chosen to sabotage relations with Algeria regardless of his president’s position.
Algeria, now subjected to these contradictory messages from the highest levels of the French government, can no longer remain idle and will implement all necessary countermeasures that this situation requires.
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