In Algeria, media and personalities denounce a French campaign of “Algerophobia”

In Algeria, media and personalities denounce a French campaign of “Algerophobia”
In Algeria, media and personalities denounce a French campaign of “Algerophobia”

Lhe politico-media excitement intensifies in after Algiers’ refusal to receive the tiktoker Naâman Boualem, expelled by the Ministry of the Interior following calls for violence against Algerian opponents.

The current sequence of crisis is fueled almost every day by declarations and responses from both sides of the Mediterranean, with a lot of comments in the media and on social networks.

On January 11, Algiers reacted to the affair of the TikToker expelled and then refouled: “It is indeed the extreme right and its representatives who want to impose on the Algerian-French relationship their views made up of attempts to intimidate, to threat and a standoff about which they speak without restraint and without nuance”, describing the expulsion as “arbitrary” and “abusive”. Indirect response from Bruno Retailleau, who reacted to criticism from ecologist Marine Tondelier: “The ministerial decree was taken on the basis of facts constituting a serious threat to public order […] Admission to stay is a sovereign decision taken by the host country. The return to the country of origin is also important. »

What sanctions against Algiers?

For his part, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, proposed, Sunday on LCI, to remove “a government agreement which allows those who have an official passport, an Algerian diplomatic passport, there are thousands of them […]to come to France without a visa in order to be able to move freely.”

The speech on possible sanctions against Algiers caused the Algérie Politique site to jump, which ironically said: “ But, devil, don’t we have to do anything to make them bend, these cursed Algerians? insists the depressed French president. »

ALSO READ Algeria: the weapon of the diaspora “How does Algeria need France to move forward with its plans, which will soon rank it as the leading economy in Africa, while the French are shivering from the cold for lack of heating , and struggle to secure the average daily ration of food? » continues this media. As for the threats from certain circles in France regarding visas, Algérie Patriotique mocks: “ [Les Algériens] will not die from it. Contrary to what is repeated [l’ancien ambassadeur de France à Alger] Xavier Driencourt, not all Algerians dream of selling cigarettes on the street at the exit of the Barbès metro or sleeping under the bridge at Porte de la Chapelle, near crack hill. »

« French state, hostage to the wishes of the radical right »

For the revision or denunciation of the 1968 agreement, put back on the table recently in (notably in high places), Algiers had, through the voice of President Tebboune, considered, in October, that it was a question of an “empty shell” and a “scarecrow, a political slogan of an extremist minority which dedicates hatred to Algeria ».

What is to be noted in official positions or in the media remains the targeting of right-wing or far-right voices and tendencies. The official daily El Moudjahid headlined this week: “The French far right is waging a war of disinformation against Algeria: Hate as a watchword”, evoking a “ French state, hostage to the wishes of the radical right ». The newspaper Echourrouk reports the statements of Lahcène Zeghidi, president on the Algerian side of the joint commission of historians, whose work has been frozen since this summer: “The French neocolonial current has evolved towards an Algerian phobia whose bad scents can be felt on all the French media. »

ALSO READ “Dishonor”: the tone rises between Emmanuel Macron and Algeria “Algerophobia elevated to the rank of reason of state. The martial, often arrogant tone of the French Ministers of Foreign Affairs and the Interior towards Algeria, is more of the ballet of insignificant people than of a real diplomatic crisis in the absence of any serious reason to explain the reminder of everything that France counts as Algerophobic,” writes former minister and ex-ambassador Abdelaziz Rahabi on X.

Note that Bruno Retailleau seems to concentrate all the shots on his person. The Algerian government’s press release of January 11 cites him indirectly by referring to “the vengeful and hateful extreme right » and “its certified heralds within the French government”. As for the deputy from the diaspora, Abdelouahab Yagoubi, he declared to BFMTV: “We did not hear so much from the Minister of the Interior when Israel humiliated France by putting two of its gendarmes to the ground. »

When Macron losesAfrica and… Emmanuel Bonne

Furthermore, Algerian media are focusing on two elements to react to what they consider to be anti-Algerian “relentlessness”. This supports the idea of ​​the loss of influence of Paris in Africa.

“The hostile campaigns launched by the French extreme right against Algeria reflect the decline of the political doctrine of the decision-makers at the Élysée, who have never reached this low level in the treatment of international issues,” estimates the government daily The mass. “To the point that France has become undesirable in Africa because of its policy based on pillage and paradoxical interests with African countries,” supports this media.

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Other media are reporting the information on the possible resignation of Emmanuel Bonne, Macron’s diplomatic advisor, who, according to an Algerian media outlet, “expressed disagreements over the management of this crisis by the French executive. In particular, he would have criticized the approach defended by the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, who recently mentioned retaliatory measures against Algeria.

« France can’t do that much stupidity. France is a powerful, serious state, with strong traditions, it invented modern bureaucracy and procedures,” journalist and political scientist Abed Charef posts on Facebook, continuing: “I know, thanks to the late Kheireddine Ameyar [défunt directeur de presse]that bullshit is bullshit; but a succession of bullshit is a policy. »

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