Just a week before the presidential election, Algeria announced that it has arrested four Moroccans as part of a recent spy network bust, as presidential candidates have claim that the state faces unprecedented “foreign threats”. On Sunday, 1 September, the public prosecutor in the city of Tlemcen, northwestern Algeria and near the Moroccan borders, announced the arrest of seven suspects, including four Moroccans and three Algerians, following the dismantling of a network allegedly “involved in espionage and intelligence activities threatening state security.” The Moroccan detainees face charg…