“We regret this decision and we would like to once again highlight the importance we attach toward the freedom of the press and the protection of journalists throughout the world,” a spokesperson for the ministry said in an electronic briefing.
Aymeric Vincenot, who had been AFP’s Algiers bureau chief since June 2017, had a visa extension request turned down by Algerian officials and returned to Paris on Tuesday, an editor at the agency told Reuters.
