PARIS – Algeria has banned French military aircraft from flying over its territory, which usually use space to reach or re-enter the Sahel region, where the Paris troops engaged in the anti-jihadist operation Barkhane are deployed.
Slimane Asselah and the other ghosts of the Algerian war which Macron has not yet given peace
by our correspondent Anais Ginori
This was announced today by a spokesman for the French General Staff. The decision comes in the midst of tensions between Paris and Algiers, which yesterday announced the “immediate call for consultations” of its ambassador to Paris, “categorically rejecting” the statements attributed to the president Emmanuel Macron, on a “political-military system” in power in Algiers that would change the narrative of the country’s history and its relations with France.
The mishap “does not prevent either operations or reconnaissance missions”, the military authorities in Paris specified, explaining that the planes only “have to adapt their flight plans”.
According to an article published by The world, which reported a meeting that took place Thursday between Macron and some descendants of protagonists of the Algerian war, the French president allegedly said that after its independence in 1962, Algeria was built on “an income of memory”, nourished by the ” military political system “. Always second The world, Macron also spoke of “a totally rewritten official history” that “does not rely on truth” but on “a speech based on a hatred of France”.
Sahel, France’s difficult war on jihadists. It is now a tug-of-war on Moscow mercenaries
by Pietro Del Re
The tension had actually been brewing for days: Wednesday, the French ambassador to Algiers, Francois Gouyette, he had been summoned to the Algerian Foreign Ministry where he was notified “a formal protest” after the decision of Paris to reduce by half the visas granted to Algerians who want to go to France. The choice of Paris does not only concern Algeria, but all the countries that have refused to accept to receive immigrants expelled from France
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