There are those postures that leave you speechless. That of the very Algerian Chems-eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, an institution under French law supposed to represent the entire Muslim community of France, is indeed one of them. Singled out for his active role in the recruitment of members of the Algerian community of France in order to praise the Algiers regime and, above all, to call for hatred, murder and attacks on French soil against all voices having the presumption of criticizing him, the former business lawyer, converted into a representative of Islam in France, found nothing better… than to attack these same voices.
In a press release in reaction to the latest arrests in France among the influencers of hatred, incited to sow terror in France by a regime weakened by the irrevocable support provided by Paris to the sovereignty of Morocco over its Sahara and by the upheavals of the criminal imprisonment of the writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers, Chems-eddine Hafiz delivered a real diatribe against certain figures of this opposition. Starting with the Algerian whistleblower Chawki Benzehra, described as “obscure blogger».
His fault? Having rightly alerted to the methodical and orchestrated nature of the aforementioned calls from Algiers. For him, there is no doubt that it is a remote-controlled campaign distilled through many media relays and carried by “thousands” of so-called influencers. Objective: to terrorize. “We must also take an interest in the Grand Mosque of Paris which welcomes these influencers and which finances them. Not a month goes by without the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris going to Algeria to meet President Tebboune. We are faced with a real agenda hatched in Algeria and which is taking place in France through the Great Mosque of Paris, which has become a tool in the service of a campaign to destabilize France“, said Chawki Benzehra. It was yesterday Sunday January 5 on the channel CNews. Enough for the rector to issue a real fatwa against the person concerned, adding “some low-level personalities».
The Algerian media were quick to amplify the comments, expanding the blacklist of voices that Algiers cannot hear. Standard bearer of the military apparatus in power, Algeria54 also includes the journalist and writer Mohamed Sifaoui, guilty of attacking LCI «to Algerian representations in France, such as the Grand Mosque of Paris”, accusing them of “waging a war against France for the benefit of Algeria“. As with Sansal, Sifaoui is also treated as “thief“. Definitely! Incidentally, the Algiers regime viciously betrays itself when it considers the Grand Mosque of Paris as “an Algerian representation», even though it is an association under French law, representative of ALL Muslims in France. “The French neocolonial propaganda machine led by the French regime in full decadence, is not idle and is escalating in the demonization of Algeria, its institutions, its leaders and also its symbols», we read, among other nuggets.
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Rector Hafiz does not fail to attack the former French ambassador to Algeria, Xavier Driencourt, “known for his blind hostility against the country where he served» and who held “a similar speech” on CNews. While it is his person and his connections with the regime of Algiers and President Tebboune which are denounced, Chems-eddine Hafiz makes a masterful escape by hiding behind the entire Muslim community. Nothing less. “These defamatory remarks are part of CNews’ overall strategy aimed at discriminating against all Muslims in France, denying them the simple right to exist in our country, and spreading the poison of the extreme right in our society.», he writes. And there you have it. As if not to anger his sponsors, the rector nevertheless underlines the “strong and historical ties with Algeria».
Par «historical», Chems-eddine Hafiz has certainly heard since he took office at the head of the French institution, on January 11, 2020. An institution that he has since transformed into an Algerian pharmacy. To the point that he became the real ambassador of Algeria in Paris. Algerian journalist and YouTuber exiled in France, Abdou Semmar counted at least 8 official audiences granted by the presumed head of the Algerian state to his main support in France. “This, without counting the telephone exchanges and the countless number of meetings with Boualem Boualem, the president’s very influential chief of staff. Leading ministers are not entitled to such honors», he remarks in a video dedicated.
Officially, Algeria has no longer had an ambassador in France since the end of July 2024 and diplomatic relations between Paris and Algiers have been frozen since France’s solemn support for Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara. But unofficially, it is the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris who serves as the effective ambassador of Tebboune & Co. To the point of setting himself up as the interlocutor of the French authorities on behalf of those in power, speaking with those closest to him advisors to President Macron or even his interior ministers. This, even though he has neither the quality nor the legitimacy to do so.
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Such “commitment” has a counterpart: the hard cash largesse of the Algerian government. In addition to the annual subsidies granted by the neighboring state to the Grand Mosque of Paris, ranging from 1.2 to 2 million euros, there are lucrative contracts. You read correctly, especially when we know that since July 2023 the Grand Mosque of Paris has had the exclusive halal certification of all red meats imported by Algeria from the European Union. During this time, “no financial statement is published, no record of expenses is known and no form of transparency is observed in the financial management of the Grand Mosque of Paris. All this, in full view of the French authorities who prefer to look elsewhere», denounces Abdou Semmar. In the same way that they passively witnessed the transformation of the Grand Mosque of Paris into the hub of Tebboune’s last electoral campaign in France for the false presidential election of September 2024.
That it once again transforms itself into a “Mecca” for haters of all stripes to threaten Algerian opponents with death and attacks on French territory is ultimately only a logical outcome. Currently proceeding to a series of arrests among the promoters of crime on the Web, the French authorities provide proof that they take these threats and their various ramifications very seriously. All point in one direction: Algiers. President Macron’s radical change of tone, this Monday, January 6, addressing the neighboring regime on the affair of the writer Boualem Sansal, elderly, ill and imprisoned by the junta, for no other consideration than his ideas, does not only reinforces this idea. In front of the French ambassadors gathered at the Élysée, the French head of state said: Algeria is “dishonored» by not releasing the Franco-Algerian writer. Of rare intensity, the sentence and the speech which followed sum up all the consideration which Algeria now enjoys in the concert of nations: a thugocracy not even worthy of a mafia. She, at least, has a code of honor.
