France had promised to answer. Emmanuel Macron decided to expel “twelve agents that serve in the consular and diplomatic network of Algeria in France” and remember for consultations the French ambassador to Algiers Stéphane Romatet in reprisals for similar expulsions announced by Algeria, Elysée said Tuesday.
“The Algerian authorities are responsible for a brutal degradation of our bilateral relations,” said the French presidency in a statement, while calling Algiers to “be responsible” to “recover the dialogue.”
The twelve French officials expelled by Algeria are “on the way to France,” said a French diplomatic source.
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