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LETTER FROM MAGHREB. Morocco and Algeria voluntarily no longer have an ambassador in Paris. Algiers accuses the “DGSE spooks” when Rabat points to “Morocco bashing”.
By Benoit Delmas
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Da geopolitical pool table with three borders. It was enough for Amira Bouraoui to leave Algeria illegally for Tunisia, with her French passport, to trigger a conflict between Algiers, Tunis and Paris. The notorious opponent of the Bouteflika regime officiated at Radio M, whose director Ihsane El-Kadi was arrested sine die. She had been sentenced to two years in prison. Fearing to be caught in the nets of the violent repression which amazes Algeria, she presented herself at the airport of Tunis-Carthage to take refuge in France. The air and border police arrested her for “illegal entry into Tunisian territory”. At the second, the information hit the Algerian authorities, who demanded from their Tunisian counterparts that she be dismissed. Amira Bouraoui has…