Tensions between Paris and Algiers have escalated since last Saturday, when an Algerian citizen who had received an Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français, an order compelling him to leave French territory, killed one person and injured others in a knife attack in the city of Mulhouse.

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 has declared that Paris would reexamine the 1968 migration pact with Algeria. The pact had made it easier for Algerians to settle in France. This follows months of campaigning by hardline anti-immigration Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau,

The already strained relations between Algeria and France escalated this week. French Prime Minister François Bayrou has threatened to cancel a long-standing agreement with Algeria regarding free movement,