Yves Thréard's editorial: "France must escape the Algerian trap"

President Tebboune recently stated that he did not want to "impose illegal Algerians on France" . So why did he refuse ten times to take back the future Islamist assassin of Mulhouse, known for his apology for terrorism? To answer this question is obviously to fall into the trap that Algiers has set for Paris since independence. It is to agree to hear the litany of complaints from a paranoid regime that lives on the "martyrology" of its past. In this little game, France has lost a lot, and even more so with Emmanuel Macron in recent years. A page must be turned so that our country stops making a fool of itself by displaying its impotence.

With all due respect to Dominique de Villepin , who refuses to call things by their name, Algeria behaves like a "dictatorship" whose unacceptable nature cannot be accepted. Denouncing it is not demonstrating "amateurism" . Nothing can justify the detention of the writer Boualem Sansal ...