The national crisis .. Paris announces the start of a “gradual response” to Algeria

French Interior Minister Bruno Ritayo announced that his country will begin the implementation of traditional measures against Algeria in response to the latter’s refusal to accept a list of its citizens to be removed from France. The French minister wrote on his page on the social networking site X, on Monday evening: “I regret that Algeria refuses to implement international law, and as the joint committee between the ministries headed by the Prime Minister decided, the gradual response will be started.”

In the context of the French response, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported that the French Interior Minister “announced the suspension of the 2007 agreement with Algeria related to the visa exemption for diplomatic passports holders”, an agreement that allowed diplomats and holders of diplomatic and important passports to enter France without obtaining a prior visa.

Je regrette que l’algérie Refuse d’apliquer le droit international.

Comme l’a décidé le comité interministériel sous la présidney du premier ministre, une riposte graduée sera engagée.

– Bruno Retailleau (@Brunoretailleau) March 17, 2025

The French decision came in the wake of Paris’s official response by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stipulating that Algeria rejects a list that Paris had delivered on March 14 to the Algerian embassy in France, which includes the names of 60 Algerian citizens who were issued against them deporting decisions from France to their country, Algeria.

It is expected that the French government will rise to Algeria after this inaccurate response for Paris, as it is likely that the latter will make other decisions in the context of pressure on Algeria, to push it to cooperate and express greater flexibility on this file. However, the Algerian diplomat and former Ambassador in Madrid Abdel Aziz Rehabi confirmed in estimating a position he published on Monday evening on “X”, that the Algerian -French crisis is a candidate to continue until 2027, the date of the presidential elections in France, and said that it is not possible that Algeria will submit to French pressure, considering that Paris “does not have pressure papers on a country like Algeria that has self -sufficiency.”

Rehaba, who also held the position of Minister of Communication and Government Spokesman at the end of the nineties, said that his country’s position on the French list was expected, adding that “the Algerian immigration file to France was politicized and turned into an electoral paper to attract votes.” The opposite, and while countries such as Spain, Switzerland and Germany responded to requests, France did not interact with 89 judicial deputies issued by the Algerian judiciary, “to request the delivery of wanted persons to Algerian justice.

Algerian President Abdel Majid Taboun had alluded for last month to Paris’s position in an interview with the French newspaper Le Pen, and said, “We would also like to agree to our requests in the field of handing over the wanted persons, as Spain, Italy and Germany did. But we notice in a strange thing that Paris grants citizenship or the right to resort to figures who committed economic crimes or practiced sabotage work on French soil. According to our information, some of them were employed. By your services as two informants. “