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The latest escalation came after an Algerian consular official was arrested with two other people last Friday over the April 2024 kidnapping of an exiled Algerian influencer called Amir DZ.

A high-profile critic of the Algerian government with more than a million followers on social media, Amir DZ was eventually released in a forest.

Boukhors, also known as Amir DZ, has lived in France since 2016 and was reportedly granted political asylum in 2023.

During a press conference on Sunday, Mr Bessone described the "unprecedented savagery" of the 15-year-old's murder linked to a feud between two gangs known as the "DZ Mafia" and the "Blacks".

Price spikes in Germany eased despite the end of both a lower tax rate on restaurant bills and some energy subsidies that should have pushed prices up — a good sign for the rest of the year, according to Christoph Swonke, macroeconomic analyst at DZ Bank.