"A very positive signal" : Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announces the arrival in Paris of his Algerian counterpart Saïd Sayoud in "a few days"

The Algerian Minister of the Interior, Saïd Sayoud, will travel to Paris in “a few days”new stage of warming between Algeria and France, announces Laurent Nuñez in an interview with La Tribune Sunday. “This is a very positive signal. Security cooperation is gradually being reestablished”estimated the Minister of the Interior, who went to Algiers in mid-February at the invitation of Said Sayoud, after months of tensions between the two countries.

This visit by Laurent Nuñez had initiated a relaxation of relations between Algiers and Paris. Another step in this rapprochement, the Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin is expected in Algiers on Monday to try to “restore judicial relations” between the two countries and notably mention the case of journalist Christophe Gleizes, imprisoned in Algeria. The Minister of the Interior also explains in this interview that there is, with his Algerian counterpart, “a work of exchanging information to be re-engaged on drug traffickers, and the collaboration is in both directions”.

Asked about the “balance of power” with Algeria, advocated by his predecessor Bruno Retailleau, he responds: “On the security and migration side, we are obliged to discuss with Algeria”. “It is a large country, which has a certain know-how in matters of intelligence and security. Having exchanges with it is necessary“, he argues. With “several million people on both sides of the Mediterranean who are affected by the Franco-Algerian relationship and experience it very directly”, he asserts: “What is the point of having a standoff in these conditions?”. . . . It’s a sesux, “those who only seek to rob Algeria do not think of the interests of France, but of their electoral interests”.