In a speech delivered to both houses of parliament, the president of this North African country violently attacked France.
The Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, since it is him who is in question, returned to the questions of memory in a « speech to the nation ».
According to extracts from his speech published on the official website of the presidency, the Algerian leader calls on Paris to recognize its crimes in Algeria. While relations between Paris and this North African country are at their lowest, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is demanding certain gestures from France relating to the colonial period (1830-1962).
“The French must admit that they killed and massacred the Algerians”underlined President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, returning to the colonial period and the Algerian war of independence.
The head of state also called on France to clean up the contaminated nuclear test sites in the south of the country: “You became a nuclear power and left us with diseases. Come clean! » He specifies that his country is not demanding compensation, “but the dignity of our ancestors and our citizens”he clarified.
To those who, today, in France, praise the benefits of colonization, the Algerian leader responds that it “left Algeria in ruins” : 90% of Algerians were illiterate at independence, he added.
Referring to the Sahrawi question, he affirmed that “the idea of autonomy is a French idea and not a Moroccan one”stressing that the settlement options they propose for the question of Western Sahara are “choices between bad and worse when it is a question of decolonization and self-determination”.
For the first time, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to the arrest in mid-November in Algiers of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal.
The head of state describes the author as an imposter with an unknown father. He says Sansal is sent by France to assert that half of Algeria belongs to another state, Morocco. The writer has been incarcerated since November for endangering state security.
It is not on this basis that any agreement or reconciliation is possible. In any case, President Macron tried for seven years to do what was in his power with a clear will and this was not reciprocated.
