France has called Algeria’s adoption of a law declaring French colonisation a “state crime” a “hostile act", warning that it undermines efforts to restore dialogue amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
After the Algerian parliament voted unanimously Wednesday to criminalise French colonisation and to demand an official apology, the French foreign ministry said the move was "manifestly hostile, both to the desire to resume Franco-Algerian dialogue and to calm, constructive work on issues of historical memory”.
