The French president accused the “politico-military” system to maintain a “memorial annuity” and questioned the existence of an “Algerian nation” before colonization.
Le Monde with AFP
Karim Tabbou, a figure of the Hirak protest movement in Algeria, strongly criticized Tuesday, October 5, the words of the French President Emmanuel Macron in which he questions the existence of an “Algerian nation” before French colonization.
m. Macron triggered Algiers’s anger after remarks on Saturday by the French newspaper Le Monde, accusing the Algerian “politico-military” system to maintain a “memorial annuity” by serving to his people an “official story” who ” does not rely on truths “.
According to Le Monde, the French President had also claimed that “the construction of Algeria as a nation is a phenomenon to look at. Was there an Algerian nation before French colonization? That, This is the question (…) “, a passage that has hawk the Algerian opinion the happier.
“The interrogative question of Emmanuel Macron on the existence of Algeria before colonization is an absurd assertion,” writes Karim Tabbou on his Facebook page. Head of a small opposition party not approved by the authorities, the Democratic and Social Union (UDS), Karim Tabbou, 47, is one of the most popular faces of the Hirak, unpublished antisystem movement born in February 2019 .
Immediate reminder of the ambassador
“The declaration of Emmanuel Macron about Algeria shows this deep disarray of a man who, fault of winning the great battles, hopes at least earn his electoral battle. Through his statement, Macron tries to Returning Algeria’s debate on the French political scene in an approach made by overbidding and populism, “he says.
Algiers announced Saturday the “immediate reminder” of his ambassador to Paris and decided Sunday to prohibit the overview of his territory with French military aircraft as a response.
“Neither the situation of human rights and the questions relating to freedoms do not integrate with each other!” Criticizes this figure of the hirak, adding that “official France continues to give the economic interest premium and Algeria official discount policy supports “.
Condomned in first instance on 7 December 2020 by the Tribunal de Kolea, near Algiers, one year in prison with suspension and a fine of 100,000 dinars (approximately 630 euros) for “violation of the national security”, His appeal trial is scheduled for October 11th.