The Turkish news agency Anadolu reported on Sunday, citing Algerian media sources, that the country’s authorities summoned the French Ambassador to Algeria, Stéphane Romatet, and issued a “strong warning” regarding what they described as “hostile plans” orchestrated by French intelligence.

Algerian media, including the prominent French-language government newspaper “El Moudjahid,” reported, citing “reliable” diplomatic sources, that the French ambassador was summoned to the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Algiers last week.

The government newspaper considered the summoning of Ambassador Romatet as a “strong warning” following the revelation of “the involvement of French intelligence agencies in a campaign to recruit former terrorists in Algeria for destabilization purposes.”

The Algerian authorities also warned the French ambassador that they would not remain “idle” in the face of what they described as “continuous attacks on their sovereignty,” according to local newspapers.