The French media launched, with first solutions Ramadan daysA fierce campaign against Algeria, after Algeria sent a group of Algerian imams to supervise and organize prayers in some French mosques on the occasion of this holy occasion, an initiative that was widely welcomed and praised by the people of the community as well as the active bodies there, especially the Grand Mosque in Paris, which praised it, and thanked the President of the Republic for his constant keenness to continue this approach, despite the outbreak of a severe diplomatic crisis with Paris since More than two years.
As one of the most prominent French media outlets that embrace anti-Algerian and anti-Muslim ideologies, it hosted the “C News“In one of its newspapers, a journalist of Arab origins strongly attacked Algeria for sending a group of Algerian imams to French mosques during the holy month of Ramadan. The so-called Karim Maloum denounced this step, claiming that “these imams sent to French mosques carry ideas and speeches that were edited by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, as part of efforts to organize the Muslim community residing in France, while they did not The French government has taken no action regarding this.” The journalist, who embraces the ideas of the extreme right, also added that “the Muslim community in France is today being nourished by separatist and radical ideas, and others related to political Islam as well as anti-secularism, and in a moment, we are bringing in these imams who are ignorant of the history of France and its problems, to provide us with explanations about how to coexist with each other in France, and here many questions arise before the French government,” he says.
In the midst of a severe diplomatic crisis between Paris and Algeria, the arrival of Algerian imams to supervise Ramadan prayers in… France Widespread controversy. However, this is a tradition that still exists, and is different from the system of delegated imams that was abolished at the beginning of 2024. Algerian imams will be assigned to supervise the prayers, coinciding with the start of the month of Ramadan last Wednesday. However, this announcement, which comes in light of the diplomatic crisis between France and Algeria, sparked widespread controversy in the arena, especially the extreme right and its followers, who seize any opportunity to launch systematic campaigns of hostility and escalation against Algeria.
With the advent of the month of Ramadan, the Dean of the Grand Mosque in Paris, Shams Eddine Hafid, thanked Algeria and the President of the Republic for sending Algerian imams to French mosques, saying: “I would like to thank the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, for his constant keenness to perpetuate this tradition of sending Algerian imams here, to the Grand Mosque in Paris, to supervise the Muslim community here in France.” The dean said in a video clip: “I would first like to thank the Algerian authorities, because we have just received Tarawih imams who will bring joy to the hearts of the Muslim community in France.”
The dean of the largest Islamic institution in France explained: “These imams come to guide the Muslim community during Tarawih prayers,” announcing in this context “the launch of aid to the most needy groups, by organizing the distribution of meals throughout the month of Ramadan in the Grand Mosque in Paris, and in a number of regions across France.”
Every year, and only during the month of fasting, foreign imams are actually received on French soil, and they benefit from temporary visas, within the framework of specific tasks and for short periods of time. This has nothing to do with the system of delegated imams, who are preachers who reside permanently in France and receive their salaries from foreign countries. This system was suspended as of January 1, 2024, following a government decision aimed at reducing foreign influences on religious affairs. As for the imams of Ramadan, they leave after a few weeks, and this is a tradition that continues despite the existing crisis between Paris and Algeria. Diplomatic relations are tense, but religious cooperation remains.
Algerian-French relations have deteriorated significantly since the summer of 2024, following France’s recognition of the alleged Moroccan sovereignty over the occupied territories of Western Sahara, an area subject to international dispute and classified as part of decolonization. Algeria had previously withdrawn its ambassador to Paris, Said Moussi, in August 2024, in protest against France’s departure from its neutrality in the Western Sahara issue, and considering Morocco’s alleged autonomy plan “the only solution” to the conflict. In April 2025, France, in turn, summoned its ambassador to Algeria, Stephane Romatet, to Paris for consultations, following a severe crisis characterized by the mutual expulsion of diplomatic officials.
Two years ago, crises continued between Paris and Algeria, with the intensity of the French campaigns of escalation and hostility towards Algeria escalating, including Paris accusing an Algerian diplomat of trying to kidnap a social media activist residing in France accused of terrorism. Algeria responded at the end of April 2025, by expelling twelve employees from the French embassy in Algeria, and the same measure was taken for Paris, which was read at the time as an “unprecedented” tension in relations. “French Algerian in recent years.
Recently, Algeria declared the French ambassador, Stephane Romatet, “persona non grata” against the backdrop of statements he made during a television program in France that addressed Algerian-French relations. But the recent visit by French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez to Algeria would open a new page of relations based on cooperation and common interests if an amicable settlement of the differences between the two sides is reached.
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