France on Friday confirmed one of its citizens had been killed and another was jailed, a day after media reports said two tourists were shot dead by coastguards when they strayed across Algeria’s maritime border with Morocco. Moroccan media reported Thursday that two French-Moroccans had been killed after straying across the border into Algerian waters on jet skis, near the popular Moroccan beach resort of Saida. The foreign ministry in Paris reported only one death without providing the circumstances or location, while saying another of its citizens was “jailed in Algeria” in “an incident involving several of our nationals”. Paris did not release the identity of the person it said had been killed. Mohamed Kissi said that he had been recovered by the Moroccan navy and brought back to Saida.
