Algeria summons the French ambassador to denounce “destabilizing” actions by Paris

MADRID Dec. 15 () –

The Government of Algeria has summoned the French ambassador in Algiers, Stéphane Romatet, to convey “a severe warning” against the actions by Paris, which it describes as maneuvers aimed at “destabilizing” the situation in the African country.

According to information published this Sunday by the official Algerian newspaper ‘Le Moudjahid’, the authorities conveyed to Romatet the authorities’ “firm disapproval” of the “provocations” and “hostile acts” on the part of France.

Thus, Algiers has maintained that these acts “will not remain without consequences”, without the Algerian Government having commented for now on the meeting. Likewise, the French authorities have not yet reacted to this information.

The aforementioned newspaper emphasizes that the call comes “after serious revelations about the involvement of the General Directorate of Foreign Security in a recruitment campaign of former terrorists in Algeria with the aim of carrying out destabilizing actions.”

The new incident comes amid a new rise in tensions following the arrest last month of the prominent Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, accused by Algerian authorities of “attacking territorial integrity.”

The case would be related, according to the digital newspaper TSA Algérie, with an article published at the beginning of October in a far-right French media in which Sansal explained that part of the western territory of Algeria “belonged to Morocco” before French colonization. .

Sansal has been charged under article 87 of the Penal Code, which includes “terrorist or subversive acts against the security of the State, the integrity of the territory and the stability and normal functioning of institutions”, for which the writer faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment.

Relations between Algeria and France have not been going well since Paris recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the territory of Western Sahara, a step that even led Algiers to lower diplomatic relations to the level of chargé d’affaires and withdraw its ambassador in retaliation.