During a television interview with the press, the Algerian head of state stated that “things fell” after the crisis of the month of October.
Le Monde with AFP
“Things are starting to take a new turn” Between Algeria and France, “said Algerian President Abdelmadjid TEBBOUNE on Tuesday evening, during a televised interview with the Algerian press. “I will not say any more. They are in an election period. But in general, things have fallen,” Tébboune answered a question about algero-French relations that have been through a serious crisis since the October.
The last meeting between the Secretaries General of the Foreign Ministries of the two countries was “very positive”, said the Algerian Head of State. “With the last decision made by the French President [Emmanuel Macron] on the Charonne metro where Algerians died because of the repression of the scoundrel [Mauritius] Papon [prefect of police of Paris of the time], things start at Taking a new turn, “said TEBBOUNE.
On February 8, Mr. Macron paid tribute to the dead victims in the Metro Charonne, in Paris, during a demonstration for peace in Algeria on February 8, 1962, violently repressed by the French police.
“An excellent personal relationship”
In early February, the leader of Algerian Diplomacy Ramtane Lamamra had told French media that relations between the two countries are “in a bottom-up phase”. Mr. Lamamra had assured that Algerian and French presidents had “an excellent personal relationship”, “cordial and confident”.
Four months ago, Mr. Macron triggered Algiers’s anger after the words he had loaned on October 2 the French daily [Nute], accusing the Algerian “politico-military” system to maintain a “memorial annuity ” According to the daily, he had questioned the existence of an Algerian nation before French colonization.
As a sign of protest, Algeria had recalled his ambassador to France and forbids the overview of his territory with French military aircraft serving the Sahel, where the troops of the “Barkhane” anti-dijihad operation are deployed. The ambassador returned to France on January 6th.
In his interview, Mr. Tebboune also criticized Morocco who “does not stop his propaganda against Algeria (…) with the support of Israel”. “Nothing has changed. On the contrary, things have complicated more,” said Algerian head of state about relations with the Moroccan neighbor, continuing to exclude any mediation.