Algeria has ordered 12 French embassy staff to leave within 48 hours, French Foreign Minister Jean Noel Barott confirmed on Monday, EuroNews reported.
The decision to expel the official comes days after French prosecutors charged three Algerians, including a consul, last year on suspicion of luring Algerian influencer Amir Boucol.
Boohall, who supports the massive Tiktok, is a critic of the Algerian government and hopes to face trial on alleged fraud and terror crimes.
According to his lawyer, Amir DZ was accused of the Paris suburbs in April last year because of its well-known online.
Barott said the expulsion of the diplomat was directly linked to the incident in which Bouhors, who has lived in France since 2016 and was granted political asylum in 2023.
The French foreign minister urged Algiers to reconsider his expulsion, saying that Paris would otherwise be forced to retaliate.
Although relations between France and its former colonies have long been challenging, tensions dramatically worsened last July, when French President Emmanuel Macron realized the autonomy of the Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty.
Since then, countries have been clashing with other events, such as the detention of Boulem Sansal, French-Algerian author in Algiers in November.