12/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - French MEP Alima Boumédiene-Thiery (a Green of Algerian origin) says she was deliberately kept away from any contact with the Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika when he visited the EP in Strasbourg on 4 June. In a letter of complaint she explains that she had been helped by another Green MEP to attend the reception after the president's visit (to which she had not been invited) and had been able to question Bouteflika about the lack of emergency services,...