Overview

• French Prime Minister François Bayrou has given Algeria four to six weeks to comply with repatriation agreements or face the termination of the 1968 migration pact.
• The move follows a knife attack in Mulhouse, attributed to an Algerian national on a terrorism watchlist, which left one dead and several injured.
• French officials claim Algeria has repeatedly refused to accept deported nationals, with the Mulhouse suspect rejected 14 times before the attack.
• The 1968 agreement currently grants Algerians special immigration privileges in France, but officials argue Algeria's actions undermine the pact.
• The dispute adds to already strained relations between the two nations, worsened by disagreements over Western Sahara and the detention of French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal in Algeria.