France wants to scrap agreement allowing Algerian officials to enter the country without a visa

In a further escalation of tensions between France and Algeria, French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced in an interview with French media outlet LCI that the latest diplomatic ‘clashes’ means they want to ‘abolish’ the Franco-Algerian government agreement that allowed more than 1,000 Algerian diplomats to travel freely in France without the need for a visa. ‘We are at a very critical point and this humiliation they want to inflict on us is not acceptable. Algeria must respect France, and France must respect Algeria’, the minister concluded. Algeria in turn accused France of wanting to promote an escalation in the conflict through a campaign of discrediting, disinformation and distortion of the Algerian reality.