France: Algerian national arrested as main suspect in parcel-bomb in Lyon

Security authorities in France have arrested four people including a young Algerian man deemed the main suspect in the letter-bomb attack last week in Lyon, south-eastern France, which wounded 13 people. A 24-year old computer science student from Algeria has been identified as the main suspect for the blast on Friday afternoon, in front a […]

New book warns of France’s ‘double blindness’ towards Algerian regime

Amid worsening tension between Paris and Algiers, former French ambassador to Algeria Xavier Driencourt offers a sharp critique of France’s long-standing diplomatic posture toward Algeria in his new book France–Algérie: le double aveuglement (“France–Algeria: The Double Blindness”). The book refers on the one hand to France’s blindness to the true nature of the Algerian regime, […]

France24 correspondent in Algeria detained on ‘serious charges’

Correspondent in Algeria of French news channel France24 was arrested Tuesday on what his lawyer branded “serious charges”. Abdelghani Badi told TSA the prosecutor of the Bir Mourad Raïs court in capital Algiers ordered his client, Moncef Aït Kaci, to be locked. Badi did not elaborate on the charges but said they are “serious”. However, […]