The last save in diplomatic splashes occurs after France arrested three Algerians about the kidnapping or influencer of social networks.
Algeria has ordered the French officials to leave the country within 48 hours, increasing diplomatic tension between the two countries.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noh Barot said on Monday that the order is linked to the recent judgment of three Algerian citizens who submitted to kidnapping a high profile critic of the Algerian government in Paris last year.
Barrot asked the Algerian authorities to “abandon these expulsion measures”, saying that if he persisted with his decision, France would have no choice but to “respond immediately.”
A diplomatic source told the AFP news agency that 12 included some members of the French Interior Ministry.
Last week, French prosecutors accused three Algerians, including a consular official, under suspicion of participation in the kidnapping of Amir Boukhors.
The men, who were placed in preventive detention, are also being processed by “terrorist” conspiracy.
Opponent of the Algerian government, the influencer of social networks has more than one million followers in Tiktok under the name of “Amir Dz”.
Boukhors, whom France granted asylum in 2023, was tasks in a suburb of Paris in April last year and released the next day, according to his lawyer.
Algiers demands that he return to the judgment face, after having issued nine international trial orders against him for accusations of fraud and terrorist offensive.
Tense relationships
The diplomatic splash threatens to change recent efforts to normalize strobe relations between France and its former North Africa neighborhood, including a visit to Algeria by Barot a week ago.
Last July, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Agredg Argeria by recognizing a plan for the autonomy of the Western Sahara Region under Moroccan sovereignty.
Tensions increased further last month when an Algerian court sentenced the French-Algerian writer Boalem Sansal to five years in prison for undermining national unity, which caused a call to his freedom of Macron.
Last week, after the conversations with the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Barot had declared that the ties returned to normal.
The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said Monday that the shoulder continues with its order, it would be the first expulsion of French diplomats since Algeria won independence in 1962.