France threatens to review Algeria migration pact in row over deportations

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou speaks after receiving the pensions' report results from France's First President of the French Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes), at the Hotel Matigon in Paris, France February 20, 2025. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) - 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.

Already strained ties between Paris and Algiers have worsened further after an Algerian citizen whom France had long tried unsuccessfully to repatriate killed one person and injured three in a knife attack in the city of Mulhouse on Saturday.