According to Prime Minister François Bayrou, France will threaten its former colony Algeria by revoking its special status if the country does not cancel the deportation of Algerians from France.
Bayrou said in Paris that convenient entry for Algerians including the 1968 French-Algeria agreement (including the 1968 Franco-Algeria agreement), adding that France did not seek such an upgrade.
He intends to give Algiers four to six weeks to reconsider the situation and plans to send Algeria a priority list of people desperate to deport.
Beiru’s words followed Saturday’s terrorist attack in Mulhouse, Alsace region, where the Algerian nation lived illegally in France, killing one person and injuring seven people.
France wanted to expel the attacker convicted of terrorism and return to Algeria, but the country refused to withdraw its citizens ten times. This caused anger in France and further tensions that had already been with Algeria.
Last year, when he recognized Morocco’s decades of claims to Western Sahara, Emmanuel Macron offended Algeria in the past year. Meanwhile, France was arrested on the arrival of Algiers in mid-November by the Franco-Alsace writer who was arrested when he arrived in Algiers. The winner of the 2011 German bookseller Peace Prize was subsequently detained in Algeria.
There is a dispute over Algerian influencers living in France who are accused of inciting hatred and horror on social media. Paris failed to expel one of them, because Algeria immediately sent him back.
