Politics. Algiers recalls its ambassador in Paris
Algeria decided on Saturday to recall “for consultation” Mohamed Antar-Daoud, its ambassador to France, announced on public television, citing an official statement from the Algerian presidency.
In a second press release in the early evening, Algeria justified this reminder by its “rejection of any interference in its internal affairs”, specifying that it had made its decision following “statements attributed” to French President Emmanuel Macron.
“Following the unchallenged remarks that several French sources have been attributed to the President of the French Republic, Algeria expresses its categorical rejection of the inadmissible interference in its internal affairs which constitutes the said remarks”, indicated the Algerian presidency.
After critical remarks by Macron
Local media picked up widely this Saturday an article from World where the French President Emmanuel Macron, receiving descendants of protagonists of the Algerian war, estimates that after its independence in 1962, Algeria was built on “a memorial rent”, maintained by “the politico-military system “.
He also evokes “an official history”, him, “completely rewritten”, which “is not based on truths” but on “a speech which rests on a hatred of France”.
According to local media, another passage from Emmanuel Macron’s statements provoked the ire of the authorities. “Was there an Algerian nation before French colonization? That is the question”, asked the French president, recalling that there were “previous colonizations”.
The “visa crisis”
On Wednesday, the French Ambassador to Algiers François Gouyette was summoned to the Algerian Foreign Ministry to be notified of “a formal government protest”, after Paris’ decision to halve the visas granted to Algerians wishing to surrender. in France.
Paris announced on Tuesday a sharp decrease in the number of visas granted to nationals of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, citing a “refusal” by these Maghreb countries to issue the consular passes necessary for the return of deported immigrants. France.