INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
on Monday, Euro News reportedThe decision to expel the officials comes just days after prosecutors in France indicted three Algerians,
including a consular official, on suspicion of kidnapping the Algerian influencer Amir Boukhors last year.Boukhors, who has a large TikTok
lawyer.Barrot said the expulsion of diplomats was directly linked to the case of Boukhors, who has lived in France since 2016 and was
granted political asylum there in 2023.The French foreign minister has urged Algiers to reconsider the expulsions, saying that Paris would
be forced to retaliate if it does not.Although relations between France and its former colony have long been challenging, tensions worsened
dramatically last July when French President Emmanuel Macron recognized the autonomy of Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty.Since
then, the countries have clashed over other events, including the detention of the French-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algiers in
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