TF1 journalist says Algeria’s embassy in Paris hosts an intelligence network
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on La Nouvelle Tribune
Christophe Dubois, a reporter for TF1's programme Sept à huit, says on Le Figaro TV that Algeria maintains a clandestine intelligence apparatus in its embassy in Paris, with a security office linked to the consulates. He sets this out in his book Alger-Paris. Affaires toxiques, published in October 2026; Algiers has not reacted, according to La Nouvelle Tribune.
Christophe Dubois, a reporter for TF1's programme Sept à huit, said on Le Figaro TV on 10 November that Algeria maintains a clandestine intelligence apparatus in its embassy in Paris. "It is one of the most staggering discoveries of our investigation," he said. He gives details in "Alger-Paris. Affaires toxiques", co-written with Marie-Christine Tabet and published by Stock in October 2026. Algeria has not reacted.
According to Dubois, a security office set up at the embassy has branches in the consulates. In the case of the influencer Amir DZ, he also mentions a man used by the Algerian services to obtain confidential information at the Finance Ministry, at Bercy. This man relied on an employee of the French Office for Immigration and Integration. The journalist rules out any "fifth column" theory and speaks of targeted individuals. He believes these cases will "probably one day" be the subject of a trial.
These statements come as Franco-Algerian relations, strained since 2024 after Paris’s support for Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara, are going through a fragile thaw. Alice Rufo travelled to Algiers on 8 May 2026, Laurent Nuñez received his counterpart in Paris on 1 June, and the journalist Christophe Gleizes remains detained in Algeria. An Algerian consular agent has been formally charged in the Amir DZ case.
