Algeria summons French ambassador over accusations of interference

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15 December 2024 at 11:15 am·1-min read

French President Emmanuel Macron and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune during a signing ceremony at Algiers airport, in Algiers, on 27 August 2022 as Emmanuel Macron wrapped up a three-day trip to Algeria.

Algeria's foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to reprimand him for what it said were efforts to destabilise the country, several Algerian media outlets reported on Sunday.

The French ambassador, Stephane Romatet, was "informed of the firm disapproval of the highest Algerian authorities in the face of the numerous French provocations and hostile acts," the government-owned daily El Moudjahid reported.

According to Le Soir d'Algerie, the Algerian officials "made a point of clearly identifying the origin of these malicious acts, the French DGSE" intelligence service.

El Moudjahid said the French spy services were seeking to recruit "former terrorists" to "destabilise" the North African country.

Le Soir d'Algerie said French diplomats and agents had organised a series of meetings with people showing a "declared and permanent hostility towards Algerian institutions".

The heightened tensions between Algiers and Paris come while French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been in detention for nearly a month in Algeria, accused of "attacking territorial integrity".

Franco-Algerian writer Sansal held in Algeria on state security charges

Algeria has historically supported the region's Polisario separatist movement.

(AFP)

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