Gérald Darmanin has been Minister of the Interior since July 2020. -

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Visiting Algiers on the occasion of a regional tour, the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin praised Sunday the “cooperation” with Algeria in the fight against terrorism. 

Gérald Darmanin thanked Algeria for "continuous cooperation" in "security and the fight against terrorism", indicating that exchanges were planned between the internal services of the two countries, according to elements transmitted to AFP which no 'had no access to any of the French minister's talks in Algiers.

"Identical visions in all the files discussed"

Among the subjects discussed, the Libyan question and illegal immigration, added Gérald Darmanin, after a meeting with his Algerian counterpart Kamel Beldjoud, who reported "identical visions in all the files discussed", according to these same elements.

Gérald Darmanin, grandson of an Algerian tirailleur, was received by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad and then Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum.

"The exchanges (...) focused on bilateral relations, as well as the ways and means of their strengthening and diversification", specified the official agency APS.

Gérald Darmanin also met with the Algerian Minister of Religious Affairs Youcef Belmehdi.

During this interview, Youcef Belmehdi insisted "on the banning of all forms of violence and extremism, whatever their origin", according to a statement from his ministry.

"Islam is a religion of love, peace and coexistence"

"Islam is a religion of love, peace and coexistence", assured the press release, adding that "these are the recommendations that his department never ceases to lavish on the imams seconded to the Great Mosque of Paris and that all the imams seconded to France are committed to making it happen ”.

According to the press, the French minister was also to go to Mostaganem (north-west), the native region of his maternal grandfather.

Long planned, Gérald Darmanin's tour took a new turn with the attack that left three dead in the basilica of Nice (south-eastern France) at the end of October, the alleged perpetrator of which is a 21-year-old Tunisian. freshly arrived in Europe.

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