“We are up against decades of diplomatic weakness, no other country dares to treat us like this. » Anger was already strong since the arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, it is now openly expressed in the corridors of the Ministry of the Interior. Since the recognition of the Moroccan nature of Western Sahara by Emmanuel Macron last July, the crisis has worsened between France and Algeria.
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But the Algerian government had not waited for this decision: for years the desire for reconciliation of “two shores of the Mediterranean”expressed by Emmanuel Macron, faces repeated rejections. And this, despite the assimilation of colonization to a crime against humanity, the laying of a wreath at the memorial of the martyrs of Algiers, the report requested from Benjamin Stora, the reception at the Élysée of the grands- children of nationalist leader Ali Boumendjel, the recognition of “unforgivable crimes” on the 60th anniversary of October 17, 1961…
A memorial annuity that lasts
For its part, Algiers did not join Emmanuel Macron in asking for forgiveness from the harkis or recognizing the crimes committed against the pieds-noirs, with President Tebboune contenting himself with accusing the French army of “genocide”. And if the Algerian ambassador to France has been withdrawn since this summer, Algiers did not wait to recall him previously on several occasions, as well as in 2021, when Emmanuel Macron criticized the “political-military system” Algerian to enjoy a “memorial annuity”, that in 2020, when the Algerian government criticized France for the broadcast of two documentaries dedicated to Hirak – a popular protest movement which led to the resignation of President Bouteflika – on the parliamentary channel and France 5.
For years, the desire for reconciliation has come up against repeated rejections from Algeria
Same thing with the visit of President Tebboune to France, expected since it was announced at the end of a trip by Emmanuel Macron to Algeria, in 2022. Visit constantly postponed, until being completely canceled on the 5th last October, due to the rapprochement of France and Morocco. Previously, Abdelmadjid Tebboune had, for example, conditioned his visit on the restitution of Emir Abdelkader’s sword and burnous – which was not provided for in the agreement signed between the two countries. And for good reason, the burnous is in the French army museum for a good reason: it was offered by the grandson of the emir, in gratitude for the treatment given to his grandfather when he was a prisoner… French people!
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