Three Algerian media outlets reported last week that Algeria’s intelligence services had “foiled a plot orchestrated by French intelligence to destabilize Algeria,” Le Figaro reported on Sunday, and that Algiers had summoned the French Ambassador “for the last time.”
The government-run daily El Moudjahid reported that Algeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had summoned France’s ambassador to Algeria, Stéphane Romatet, to “convey to him the strong disapproval of the highest authorities regarding the numerous provocations and hostile acts by France towards Algeria.” The ministry asserted that “such actions cannot go without consequences.”
“Algeria warns that it will not remain passive in the face of these relentless attacks on its sovereignty. Determined to uphold its dignity, Algeria will take all necessary measures to counter these acts of interference,” the ministry stated, according to El Moudjahid.
The furor of Algerian authorities stems from the alleged involvement of French intelligence services (DGSE) in a “campaign to recruit former terrorists in Algeria for purposes of destabilization,” the same source said.
Last week, public television channel AL24 claimed that a 35-year-old individual named Mohamed Amine Aissaoui, a former member of Daesh who claimed that French intelligence services had “recruited him,” had plotted a terror attack on Algerian soil.
So far, France has not responded to the accusations.