The diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algiers has many repercussions, including at local level … According to information from Europe 1, this Tuesday, March 11, Algeria has decided to suspend its consular relations with the city of Nice, led by Christian Estrosi. And this, only a few days after having already broken up all contact with the Algerian consulates of Marseille and Montpellier.
Consequences of this decision: the immediate judgment of consular hearings concerning the Algerian nationals retained in the administrative retention center (CRA), but also the suspension of the surrender of the Consular Pass-document necessary to return the nationals in an irregular situation to their country of origin.
23 Algerians returned to France
In recent weeks, relations between Algerian and French governments have deteriorated strongly, especially after the incarceration of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria since mid-November, followed by the country’s refusal to welcome several of its expelled nationals from France. The situation was further aggravated at the end of February after a deadly attack in Mulhouse, the main suspect, targeted by an OQTF, had been repressed by Algiers fourteen times.
To date, no less than 23 Algerians subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), and expelled from France, have not been taken up by their country of origin since the failed expulsion of the influencer Doualemn, recalls Europe 1. A list of several hundred people in an irregular situation in France and presenting a “Dangerous profile” is being drawn up by the Ministry of the Interior. It should be presented in Algiers in the coming weeks.
