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France says it wants stronger ties with Algeria despite envoy recall

FILE PHOTO: Amira Bouraoui, leader of the Barakat (Enough) movement, speaks with the media during demonstration in Algiers March 15, 2014. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi

France will continue efforts to strengthen ties with Algeria despite Algiers accusing Paris on Wednesday of orchestrating the escape of an activist it wants to arrest, a French foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

Algeria recalled its ambassador to Paris on Wednesday after Amira Bouraoui, a rights activist detained during the 2019 mass protests in Algeria and freed from prison in 2020, had allegedly crossed into Tunisia illegally after evading Algerian judicial surveillance, according to Algerian and French media.

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