Algeria’s foreign ministry summoned the French ambassador to Algeria on Tuesday to protest what it called the ‘provocative’ treatment of its citizens at Paris airports.

Algeria is following with great concern the consistent testimonies of a number of Algerian citizens about the provocative, humiliating and discriminatory treatment they have been subjected to by the border police at Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports,’ Algerian state media quoted a Foreign Ministry statement as saying.

Relations between Paris and Algeria have been further strained in recent weeks with the arrest of Boualem Sansal in Algeria and a number of influential Algerian figures in France on charges of inciting violence.