An increasingly tense dispute between Paris and Algiers has spiralled into what French diplomatic sources told Euronews is the “biggest diplomatic crisis” since Algeria gained independence in 1962.
First triggered by arguments over the contested territory of Western Sahara that reignited last year, the beef further devolved after Algeria's increasingly authoritarian government detained French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal and French journalist Christophe Gleizes, who were sentenced by courts to five and seven years in prison, respectively.
