France’s Minister of Interior Bruno Retailleau announced yesterday that his country has compiled a list of several hundred Algerian nationals with “dangerous profiles” for potential deportation.

France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are deported by the French authorities.

French Prime Minister François Bayrou announced his government was giving Algiers four to six weeks to accept to repatriate a list of people expelled from France.

The announcement comes after years of diplomatic friction that came to a head over a recent stabbing. View on euronews

Some experts argue that France's growing war of words with its former colony stems partly from the government's desire to appease the far right on migration.

Algeria now reacts almost daily to even the slightest statements or movements by French officials. Since Minister Rachida Dati’s visit to Laayoune, the Algerian regime has issued a series of statements,