Overview
- Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the probability of a trip to Algiers is very high following Boualem Sansal’s release by presidential pardon.
- Nuñez called for relaunching security dialogue, noting that France’s police, gendarmerie and domestic intelligence services currently have no operational exchanges with Algeria.
- President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to express thanks for the pardon and to seek renewed bilateral dialogue.
- France–Algeria ties have been strained by Paris’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and by disputes that escalated after Sansal’s arrest last year.
- French journalist Christophe Gleizes remains in detention in Algeria, with an appeal scheduled for December 3, and French authorities report no new information on his case.