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The Paris prosecutor's office announced on Monday September 4 that it had opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the death of two holidaymakers, News
Algeria said Sunday that its security forces had opened fire this week after a group of jet skiers from Morocco ignored warning shots and refused to comply with orders to stop. The incident comes at a time of increased tensions between the two countries.
During a security and control patrol in our territorial waters, a coastguard unit intercepted three jet-skis that had crossed our territorial waters illegally at 19:47 (18:47 GMT) on Tuesday," the Algerian ministry said in a statement.
Morocco and Algeria have closed their maritime borders since the 1990s because of long-running territorial disputes before their recent diplomatic rift in 2021. But deadly confrontations at sea are unusual.
The family of two tourists, one of French-Moroccan nationality, allegedly shot dead last week by the Algerian coastguard are to launch a legal action in France, their lawyers announced on Sunday. The two tourists died after straying on their jet-skis from Moroccan waters into Algerian territory. Law ..