Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The Minister of the Interior would like to limit the movements of Algerian diplomats on French soil. As required on the other side of the Mediterranean, Bruno Retailleau wishes to force all diplomatic staff working for Algeria in France to report each of their trips outside Paris or far from their workplace, reveals Europe 1 this Friday.
After having withdrawn the diplomatic facilities which allowed them to stay, circulate or have treatment in our country to more than 40 influential members of the Algerian nomenklatura who recently have “Denigated” France, Bruno Retailleau drives the point home. What does it matter if Emmanuel Macron has repeatedly advocated to appease in recent months, while relations between Paris and Algiers were getting away. The strong man of Beauvau intends to continue his strategy of “Graduated response”.
Meeting in Matignon
Her ” obsession ” ? There “French security”he put forward this morning, before recalling the sad spells of the writer Boualem Sansal and the journalist Christophe Gleizes. “Algeria contravenes the rule of international law that is reciprocity”he also accused, in reference to the refusal of Algiers of resuming his nationals. “I don’t want a second Mulhouse in France, that’s why I take measures to protect the French”defended the boss of the Republicans.
“The diplomacy of good feelings failed”
Yesterday, the Minister of State and the Head of Government maintained themselves on this subject in Matignon. If Bruno Retailleau has not said more about their exchanges, the two men seem rather aligned since the start of the crisis between the two countries. At the end of February, François Bayrou had also threatened to “Denounce” The 1968 agreement, which confers a special status to Algerians in France with regard to traffic, stay and employment, if Algeria did not resume its nationals in an irregular situation.
But the duo, in addition to the invective of the Abdelmadjid Tebboune regime, has to face criticism from the inside. Again Thursday, the Quai d’Orsay announced that the Minister of the Interior was acting alone, and not in the context of a consultation with the French government. Emmanuel Macron, for his part, has moved in silence since he bet on the “Clairvoyance” of his Algerian counterpart as part of a possible release from Boualem Sansal. Which ended up getting out of his Gonds Bruno Retailleau… “The diplomacy of good feelings failed”he said last week in Le Figarocalling for “A balance of power” with Algiers.
