OQTF and visas in the government's viewfinder – Liberation

The Franco-Algerian Accord in a suspended. François Bayrou asked for re -examining this bilateral treaty From December 27, 1968, giving four to six weeks to Algiers to demonstrate his desire to respect them. Otherwise, the Prime Minister threatens to question this text which creates a unique status for the traffic, stay and employment of Algerian nationals. « If there was no answer, at the end of the way, it would be the denunciation of these agreementshe warned. This is not what we want.»»

While relations between the two countries are, in recent months, epidermal, the tension has still mounted a notch after the attack on Saturday in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin). A 37 -year -old Algerian, in an irregular situation and under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), is suspected of having killed a person with stabbing and having injured seven others. The man had been presented « Fourteen times » To the Algerian authorities who refused to take it back, insisted Bayrou, drawing the link between the attack and the lack of cooperation of Algiers: the victims of Mulhouse are « The direct victims of the refusal of application of these agreements ». The government now intends to submit a list to Algiers « emergency »