Over the same period, rumours coming from local and foreign media claimed that France burned some Algerian vegetables on the pretext of discovering impermissible amounts of unhealthy pesticides.
This was compounded by media reports in the West and the Maghreb regarding the cholera incident. The crisis was deepened further by the figures reported by Algeria’s National Gendarmerie, that they had had arrested 1,744 people for violating the water law and spraying crops with contaminated water.
Source: middleeastmonitor.com