Algeria: French Far Right and Paris-Based Islamists Drag French Relations With Algeria to Rock-Bottom

Algeria: French Far Right and Paris-Based Islamists Drag French Relations With Algeria to Rock-Bottom

[People's Dispatch] Both countries have expelled each other's diplomats as the latest diplomatic row, triggered by the arrest and indictment of an Algerian consular officer in France earlier this month, continues to escalate.

"Part of the so-called Republican right follows him to maraud on the fringes of the far right, not to meet the needs of the French but to gain the internal political advantage of the political comfort identity"

While relations between France and Algeria seem doomed to incomprehension and controversy, analysis by historian Benjamin Stora, specialist of the Algerian war, and entrusted with a mission on the memories of the colonization and the Algerian war.

The tension is rising a little bit between Paris and Algiers after the reciprocal expulsion of diplomats, plunging bilateral relations into a new zone of turbulence. French Foreign and Interior Ministers met this Tuesday with the twelve consular agents and ambassadors recently forced to leave Algeria. This interview follows the decision [...] Read more Franco-Algeria diplomatic crisis: the expulsions received by the ministers appeared first on L…