Why Algeria and France fight each other on military planes
Algeria has closed its airspace to French military aircraft. Here because. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
Algeria has closed its airspace to French military planes thus further limiting the action of French contracts in Mali.
A spokesman for the French armed forces said Algeria has closed its airspace to two flights, but that it would have "no major consequences" for operations in the Sahel region, south of Algeria.
Such a reaction would seem to be determined by the fact that Emmanuel Macron, according to Le Monde , allegedly claimed that the "political-military system" of Algeria had rewritten the history of its colonization by France on the basis of "a hatred of France" .
However, this diplomatic reaction must be read as a further exacerbation of an increasingly evident tension between Algeria and France, as demonstrated by the fact that the office of the Algerian president had declared that he had summoned the French ambassador to Algiers.
Regardless of the historical controversies on the reconstruction of the history of Algeria and, in particular, of the Algerian War, the motivation of these frictions would be linked to issues of French internal politics. As readers will certainly remember, Paris had decided to reduce the number of visas it usually issues to citizens of Algeria and other countries in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Indeed, the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the number of visas issued for Algeria and Morocco will be reduced by 50 percent, while the visas granted for Tunisian citizens will be reduced by two thirds. The reaction of the Algerian Foreign Minister was immediate, stigmatizing this decision as an unacceptable and unilateral decision.
It is precisely the migration issue at the center of the French political debate: French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has given explicit support for the reduction of visas, but has suggested that the government of President Emmanuel Macron has waited too long to act.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/algeria-francia-aerei-militari/ on Mon, 04 Oct 2021 05:42:59 +0000.